Go Easy On The Soy Sauce, Bro, It Could Kill You

[BainsBane]

Crucial math problem: How many potato chips equals a bottle of soy sauce?

"First, let's spoil this tale right away by telling you the 19-year-old man in Virginia who downed a quart of soy sauce on a dare survived. It's a happy ending of sorts. But the guy had a close call. And you definitely don't want to try it.

While there's been quite a debate lately about whether the salt in the modern American diet is risky, there's no question that a massive amount of salt ingested quickly can lead to death.

In fact, suicide by soy sauce is not unknown in Asia. A 2011 report in the Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine describes the case of a 55-year-old woman diagnosed with depression. She died after drinking "a large quantity of shoyu (Japanese soy sauce)," doctors wrote.

Back in the early '90s, Mayo Clinic doctors reported on a 41-year-old man who died after swallowing a salty gargling solution. That case and a look at the medical literature up to that point led them to caution other doctors about using salty water to induce vomiting.

A salt dose ranging from 0.75 grams to 3 grams per kilogram of body weight can kill someone. A tablespoon of salt weighs about 15 grams, in case you're wondering.
If you're metrically challenged, just consider that the unnamed fellow in the report published online by the Journal of Emergency Medicine, weighed about 160 pounds and probably consumed around 170 grams of salt by drinking a bottle of soy sauce. That works out to a little more than 2 grams of salt per kilogram in his case."

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/06/12/190707171/go-easy-on-the-soy-sauce-bro-it-could-kill-you?utm_source=NPR&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=20130612

[blkmusclmachine]

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[NV Whino]

2. So it takes twice as much if Kikoman Lite?

[BainsBane]

5. 575 mg a serving

for 1 Tbs or 15 ml. I don't know how many servings are in a bottle, but just one Tb. is 24% of the recommended sodium intake.

http://www.fatsecret.com/calories-nutrition/kikkoman/lite-soy-sauce

That said, I Tb of soy sauce is a lot. I typically use far less.

[arcane1]

3. And water! Don't forget water!

I've seen too many articles about some stupid fraternity or radio DJ stunt that ended in death because the competition was "How much water can you drink?"

[geckosfeet]

4. So - how many chips? I have to know as I have been bingeing on Ruffles for two days.

Math skills severely compromised at this point.

[BainsBane]

6. salt poison will do that to you

[geckosfeet]

7. Ok. Guess I should put down the chips for now. Where is that meatball hoagie?

[BainsBane]

11. just balance it out with some ice cream

[TlalocW]

8. More than anything

I try to keep a low-salt diet. I never bother adding the salt that I see in recipes as you're going to get plenty of salt in other ingredients. I mean, why bother even adding a 1/4 tsp when even the low-salt chicken broth has a crapload of it. When my then 80-year-old mom put on quite a few pounds, sister put her on a low salt diet - less than 1000 mg a day. The weight just fell off her to the point where she needed to add back a few pounds. She went from 195 to under 150 within a couple of months.

TlalocW

[AsahinaKimi]

9. There is such a thing as low salt Soy Sauce as well as

Soy Sauce with no salt at all. There is a salt less Soy Sauce I found once at Japantown. I don't recall the name. I am sure someone could google it, and its probably not hard to find, in most Asian stores. I prefer to use low salt Soy Sauce. It actually tastes better to me. I use it with fried rice, or mixed with Wasabi for sushi/sashimi combinations. You don't need alot of soy sause on Japanese dishes.

I never use salt on my food either. Food has enough salt in it.

[arcane1]

10. I am definitely going to keep an eye out for that!

I love Soy Sauce, but I tend to use too much of it. Not like gluttony, however. I tend to apply too much of it when a little bit would taste much better. If I'm going to accidentally overdo it, I'd rather use the no-salt variety