Table salt

Also called salt, culinary salt, edible salt and dietary salt

Table salt is made from refined sea salt. Cooks use it to season, pickle, and preserve foods.

Category: Condiments & seasonings
Made from: Sea salt
Cooked most in: Asia, Africa, Europe
Top country: Indonesia
Dishes: 352 in the catalogue
Energy: 0 kcal per 100 g

Photo: Dubravko Sorić SoraZG on Flickr · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use table salt

Typical ways to cook or use it

Pickle
Preserve
Season

Cooking with it

Salt can reduce the perceived bitterness of foods, making them seem sweeter.

If you don’t have table salt

soy sauce · Works in a pinch, for flavour
It can serve a similar seasoning role.
fish sauce · Works in a pinch, for flavour
It can serve a similar seasoning role.
oyster sauce · Works in a pinch, for flavour
It can serve a similar seasoning role.

Nutrition

What 100 g of table salt holds

Per 100 g. Averages from USDA; real values vary by variety, season and growing conditions.

Nutrition per 100 g of table salt
Energy	0 kcal · 0 kJ
Protein	0 g
Fat	0 g
of which saturated	0 g
Carbohydrate	0 g
of which sugars	0 g
Fibre	0 g
Sodium	38,700 mg
Cholesterol	0 mg

Nutrition per 100 g of table salt: minerals and vitamins
Potassium	2 mg
Calcium	50 mg

Source: USDA FoodData Central (foods 173468, 746775), public domain. Minerals and vitamins are listed only where USDA measured a non-zero amount.

Around the world

Where table salt is cooked

352 dishes in the catalogue use table salt. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Countries whose dishes use it most

Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list table salt among their ingredients.

On the table

Dishes made with table salt

48 of the 352 catalogued dishes that use it, spread across the countries they come from.

Coto makassar
Indonesia
Hallaca
Venezuela
Pan-bagnat
France
Batiburrillo
Paraguay
Thiebou Yapp
Senegal
Bok l'hong
Cambodia
Arròs al forn
Spain
Kaspressknödel
Austria
Crawfish Monica
United States
Zelekivka zlyvanka
Ukraine
Ofe Oha
Nigeria
Gonré
Burkina Faso
Brussels waffle
Belgium
Çoban salad
Türkiye
Dagga
Lula kebab
Central Asia, Armenia, Azerbaijan
Pizza funghi
Italy
Serviettenknödel
Austria, Czechia, Germany
Dambu
Niger, Nigeria
Kotlet schabowy
Poland
Lángos
Hungary
Maskurolhi
Maldives
Sarma
Greece
Spätzle
Wasawasa
Ghana
Achma
Georgia
Creamy porridge
Montenegro
Ekpang Nkwukwo
Cameroon, Nigeria
Galayet bandora
Jordan
Indigirka salad
Russia
Mulgikapsad
Estonia
Radhkha
Tunisia
Shark chutney
Seychelles
Strapatsada
Greece
Tarana
North Macedonia
Kewa datshi
Bhutan
Khanom thuai
Thailand
Kissuto rombo
Angola
Luwombo
Uganda
Sochen'
Taweşeht
Bazeen
Libya
Ramanonaka
Madagascar
Caluk noodles
Indonesia
Fideuà
Spain
Lemon ricotta pancakes
United States
African Salad
Nigeria
Eiernockerl
Austria

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include table salt.

Family

Related forms

Made from: sea salt (refined)
A kind of: sea salt

Around the world

What table salt is called

Names in 194 languages, from Wikidata.

Spanish
sal · sal de mesa · sal común · sal comun
French
sel alimentaire · sel de table · sel · sel culinaire
Italian
sale da cucina · sale
Portuguese
sal de cozinha
German
Speisesalz · Kochsalz · Tafelsalz · Salz
Dutch
keukenzout · zout · tafelzout
Greek
αλάτι
Turkish
yemek tuzu · tuz
Russian
поваренная соль · соль · пищевая соль · каменная соль
Polish
sól kuchenna · sól · sól spożywcza · sól stołowa
Arabic
ملح الطعام
Persian
نمک

Show all 194 languages

Achinese
sira
Afrikaans
tafelsout · sout
Akan
n kyini · n chini
Albanian
kripë · kripa
Angika
नमक
Aragonese
sal
Aramaic
ܡܶܠܚܳܐ · melḥo
Armenian
սեղանի աղ · խոհանոցի աղ · աղ
Assamese
লৱণ
Asturian
sal · sal común · sal de mesa
Atikamekw
ciwotakan
Avaric
цӀам
Aymara
jayu
azb
دوز · دوُز · یئملی دوز · یئملی دوُز
Azerbaijani
duz
Balinese
uyah
Bangla
লবণ
Banjar
uyah padu
Bashkir
аш тоҙо
Basque
gatz arrunt · mahaiko gatz
Bavarian
Soiz
Belarusian
кухонная соль · соль · харчовая соль · каменная соль
Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)
харчовая соль · каменная соль · соль
Betawi
garem dapur
Bhojpuri
नून
Bosnian
so
Brazilian Portuguese
sal de cozinha · sal
Breton
holen
Bulgarian
готварска сол
Buriat
хоолой дабһан
Burmese
ဆား
Cantonese
食鹽
Catalan
sal · sal de taula · sal comuna
cdo
sièng
Cebuano
alasinon
Central Kurdish
خوێ · خێ · خوھ · خوەی
Cheyenne
vóhpoma'ôhtse
Chinese
食盐 · 鹽 · 食鹽 · 盐
Chuvash
апат тăварĕ
Cornish
holan mos
Croatian
kuhinjska sol
Czech
sůl · jedlá sůl · kuchyňská sůl · sůl kuchyňská
dag
yalim · yalim kuɣa · yalim zim
Danish
salt · bordsalt · kogesalt · køkkensalt
Egyptian Arabic
ملح الاكل
Esperanto
salo · kuirsalo
Estonian
söögisool · sool · keedusool · naatriumkloriid
Ewe
dze
Fiji Hindi
nimak · nimak (khaae waala)
Filipino
asin
Finnish
ruokasuola · suola · natriumkloridi · keittosuola
Fon
jɛ̌
Fula
lamɗam
Galician
sal común
Georgian
სუფრის მარილი
Guarani
juky
Gujarati
મીઠું
Haitian Creole
sèl
Hakka Chinese
yàm
Hausa
gishiri
Hebrew
מלח שולחן
Hindi
साधारण नमक
Hungarian
konyhasó
hyw
աղ
Iban
garam
Icelandic
borðsalt
Ido
manjebla salo
Igbo
ńnú
Inari Sami
sältti
Indonesian
garam · garam masak · garam dapur · garam meja
Ingush
тух
Interlingua
sal de cocina
Inupiaq
taġiuq
Irish
salann
Japanese
食塩 · 塩
Javanese
uyah
Kabyle
tisent
Kannada
ಉಪ್ಪು
Kanuri
Salt
Kara-Kalpak
as duzı
Kashmiri
نوٗن
Kazakh
тұз
kbp
ɖɔm
kge
siya
Kinyarwanda
umunyu
Korean
소금
Kurdish
xwê
Kyrgyz
кайнатма туз
Latgalian
suoļs
Latin
sal · sal tabulae · sal tabularis · sal culinarius
Latvian
sāls · vārāmā sāls · galda sāls · ēdamā sāls
Lezghian
кьел
Limburgish
Zaot
Literary Chinese
鹽
Lithuanian
druska
Low German
Solt
Lower Sorbian
sol
Lule Sami
sállte
Luxembourgish
Tafelsalz · Salz · Kachsalz
Macedonian
сол
Maithili
नून
Malay
garam · garam dapur
Malayalam
കറിയുപ്പ്
Maltese
melħ
Manchu
ᡩᠠᠪᠰᡠᠨ
Manx
sollan meein · sollan meen
Marathi
मीठ
mcn
sékmántina
Min Nan Chinese
iâm
Minangkabau
garam dapua
Mingrelian
ჯიმუ
mnw
ၜဵု
Moksha
сал
Mongolian
давс
Moroccan Arabic
ملحة د الطبلة
Mossi
yamsem
nah
iztātl
Navajo
áshįįh
Neapolitan
sale · sale (cucina)
Nepali
नून
Newari
चि
Northern Sami
sálti · biebmosálti
Norwegian Bokmål
salt
Norwegian Nynorsk
salt · bordsalt · matsalt
Occitan
sal alimentària
Odia
ଲୁଣ
olo
einehsuolu
Papiamento
salu
Pashto
مالګه
Picard
sé à minger
Piedmontese
sal da cusin-a
Punjabi
ਲੂਣ
Quechua
yanuna kachi
Romanian
sare de masă · sare de bucătărie · sodiu alimentar · sare comestibilă
Rusyn
Кухонна сіль
ryu
真塩 · まーす
Samogitian
droska
Sanskrit
लवणम्
Santali
ᱵᱩᱞᱩᱝ
Sardinian
sali de coxina
Scots
saut
Scottish Gaelic
salann
Serbian
со
Serbian (Cyrillic)
со
Serbian (Latin)
so
Shona
munyu
Sicilian
sali
Simplified Chinese
食盐
Sindhi
لوڻ
Sinhala
ලුණු
Skolt Sami
säʹltt
Slovak
soľ · jedlá soľ
Slovenian
sol
Somali
milix
Southern Altai
тус
Sundanese
uyah
Swahili
munyu
Swedish
salt · koksalt · bordssalt
Swiss German
Salz
Swiss High German
Speisesalz
Tajik
намак
Tamil
உப்பு
Tatar
аш тозы
Tatar (Cyrillic)
аш тозы
tdd
ᥐᥫ
Telugu
ఉప్పు
Thai
เกลือ
Tibetan
ཚྭ།
Traditional Chinese
食鹽
Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)
食鹽
Tulu
ಉಪ್ಪು
Tyap
nfak
Udmurt
векчи сылал
Ukrainian
кухонна сіль · сіль
Urdu
نمک
Uyghur
تۇز
Uzbek
osh tuzi
Veps
sol
Vietnamese
muối ăn · muối
Walloon
sé d' coujhene
Waray
asin
Wayuu
ichii · ichii (eküülü)
Welsh
halen
Western Frisian
sâlt
Western Panjabi
نمک · نوݨ · لوݨ
Wu Chinese
食盐
Xhosa
ityiwa
Yakut
туус
Yiddish
זאלץ
Yoruba
iyọ̀

Sources and credits

Data

GlobeCooks editorial: descriptions, kitchen notes and classification, written by GlobeCooks from checked sources
USDA FoodData Central (Foundation, SR Legacy): nutrition values (Public domain (US government work, CC0))
Wikidata: names, classification and dishes (CC0 1.0)
Wikimedia Commons: photos

Wikidata item: Q11254

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