HELP WILL MARK BRAINLIEST!!!! 40 POINTS!!!!!!



"A LITTLE SALT, PLEASE"

1. How would your hamburger and french fries taste without salt? Have you ever thought about that? "Tasteless," you say. You are right, because salt is an important seasoning. Salt makes some foods taste much better.

2. Did you know that salt does more than make your hamburger and other unsavory food taste good?

3. Ancient writings talk about salt. So salt has been important for a long time.

4. There are many uses for salt. The body must have salt in order to live and work. You know blood, sweat, and tears are salty.

5. Salt is sometimes used as medicine, gargle, or mouthwash. Salt helps to clean wounds and protect against infection.

6. The Hebrews rubbed newborn babies with salt to make sure the baby had good health. The Arabs say, "There is salt between us," meaning, "We have eaten together and are friends."

7. Salt was once so scarce that it was used as money. Caesar's soldiers received part of their pay in common salt. This pay was known as salarium. This word is where the word salary comes from. There is a saying, "He is not worth his salt," which means, "He did not work hard enough to earn his wages."

8. All the oceans contain salt. Animals make paths to salt licks. Wounds will not heal if the body does not have salt. Salt is sometimes used to preserve food.

9. The salt you use to make your food taste better is a mineral. Big rocks of salt are dug out of salt mines and crushedinto tiny rocks. These tiny rocks are crushed small enough to go through the holes of a salt shaker.


In “A Little Salt, Please” the passage describes that the body contains salt in blood, sweat, and tears. Based on the passage, how do you think salt helps in your body?