When I eat avocado toast, I put a lot of salt on it and it really brings out a salty flavor. When I eat a cream cheese bagel, it already has that same salty flavor even though the cream cheese I used doesn’t contain almost any salt. Why is that?
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The bagel is salted too. And I bet it’s way saltier than you might expect. Generally, bread dough is like 2-3% salt by weight – not uncommon to dump in salt by the tablespoon. Even though most of probably don’t eat bread and think “salty”. I would assume bagels to be in the same neighbourhood. Off the top of my head, I’d guess the bagel would be 15-20% of your daily recommended sodium because it’s probably equivalent to, like, 2 slices of bread.
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