A Love story of Salt and Pepper

Why are salt and pepper the chosen ones of spices?

Peter Preskar
Short History
Published in
6 min readAug 3, 2020

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Salt and Pepper are the Yin and Yang of spices (Image: Jane Rix on Shutterstock)

Did you know?

  • Technically salt is not a spice, it is a mineral.
  • We shouldn’t eat more than 6g of salt a day (1 teaspoon).
  • Vietnam is the world's largest producer of pepper with a 34% share of global production.

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