table salt
Let an agent explain table salt and its kinds and production, support cooking and preserving with salt, relay health guidance on sodium intake and iodisation from authorities, and describe history and trade.
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4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Understand What table salt is.
Kinds
Kinds and production.
Kinds
Kinds.
- How are sea, rock, refined and iodised salts produced, and how do flaked, coarse and regional salts differ? definition
- Which entry fits a specific salt? action
Chemistry
Chemistry and function.
Chemistry
Chemistry.
- Why does salt season and preserve food, and what role does sodium play in the body? definition
- Which entry fits sodium chloride as a compound? action
Use Cooking and preserving.
Cooking
Salt in cooking.
Cooking
Cooking.
- How is salt used in cooking and baking, and how do salt types affect measurement and flavour? action
- Which entry fits a specific technique? action
Preserving
Curing and preserving.
Preserving
Preserving.
- How is salt used to cure, pickle and preserve foods safely? provenance
- Which entry fits food preservation? action
Health Health guidance.
Sodium
Sodium intake.
Sodium
Sodium.
- What do health bodies advise about sodium intake, and how do speciality salt claims compare with evidence? provenance
- Is the user asking for personal dietary advice, which needs a professional? boundary
Iodine
Iodisation.
Iodine
Iodisation.
- Why is salt iodised, and where are iodisation programmes in place? provenance
- Which entry fits iodine deficiency? action
Learn History and trade.
History
History of salt.
History
History.
- How has salt shaped trade, taxation and settlement historically, according to historians? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Trade
Production and trade today.
Trade
Trade.
- How is food salt produced and traded today, and which protected regional salts exist? provenance
- Which misconceptions arise? provenance
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Physical world and living systems
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- PHY
- Domain
- PHY.MAT
- Other names and narrower kinds
- herbal salt, iodised salt, refined salt, Hakata Salt, Sale Marino di Trapani PGI, evaporated salt, kala namak, smoked salt, Himalayan salt, sea salt, Korean brining salt, baker's ammonia
What it is Filled
Sodium chloride prepared for human consumption, obtained by evaporating seawater or brine or by mining rock salt, refined or unrefined, often iodised to prevent iodine deficiency, and sold in forms such as fine, coarse, flaked and sea salts, herbal and flavoured salts and protected regional salts such as Trapani sea salt; table salt is a seasoning, preservative and food ingredient, essential in small amounts and regulated for iodisation and labelling, with intake guidance from health bodies.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent explain table salt and its kinds and production, support cooking and preserving with salt, relay health guidance on sodium intake and iodisation from authorities, and describe history and trade.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Sodium chloride
- Iodisation
- Seasoning and preservation
- Regulated intake guidance
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Add salt to food for a person on a medically restricted diet against their plan.
- Give salt in amounts that could harm infants, pets or people with kidney or heart conditions.
- Misrepresent salt's origin or mineral content for marketing.
- Advise individuals on salt intake for a medical condition in place of a clinician.
Only with a human decision
- Changing salt content in meals for people in care.
May
- Read salt content and iodisation from labels and report it.
- Explain dietary salt guidance from health authorities in general terms.
- Track salt use in recipes for people who have asked to limit it.
Moral aspects Filled
- Too much salt raises blood pressure, while iodised salt prevents deficiency disorders.
- Health claims about speciality salts mislead consumers.
Who is affected
- People with heart or kidney conditions
- Infants
- Consumers
Owners Filled
Steward
The person or business that holds it; food safety authorities set labelling rules.
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q25403900 - registry parent class
- Q42527 - registry parent class
- Q6509670 - registry parent class
related
- food ingredient - category
- spice - category
- food preservative - category
- halide class of minerals - halite as the mineral
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.table-salt
- Wikidata: Q11254 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11254)
Direct properties required Filled
- Particle size: mm - Measure the grain size distribution by sieving or imaging because fine, coarse and flaked forms differ.
- Bulk density: kg/m3 - Measure the mass per container volume and specify whether the salt is loosely poured or compacted.
- Water solubility: g per 100 g water - Measure the mass that dissolves at saturation and report the water temperature and salt composition.
- Moisture content: % by mass - Determine water content using a validated moisture measurement method and report the sample condition.
Recognition required Filled
- Edible sodium chloride
- Sea, rock, refined, iodised
- Road salt and industrial salt are not food grade
- White crystals, fine or coarse.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain kinds and production
- support cooking and preserving
- relay health guidance
- describe history and trade
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Excess sodium intake
- Iodine deficiency where salt is not iodised
- Misleading health claims about speciality salts
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- Food standards for salt purity and iodisation
- Labelling and protected designation rules
- Dietary sodium guidelines
Context of use required Filled
- Sodium chloride for food.
- refined table salt
- sea salt including flaked and regional salts
- rock salt for food
- iodised and fortified salt
- herbal and flavoured salts
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q11254: table salt - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Salt - general description of the item
Open questions
- Should sea salt be a separate entry?
- How should dietary guidelines be linked?
- How should iodisation programmes be linked?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q11254/spec.json