Friday, September 21, 2007
What Is With Packaged Broth?
I was in a Stop & Shop yesterday, considering a purchase of beef broth as a braising medium for a pot roast (and not having anything else on hand). I looked at the Nature's Promise store brand and noticed a sodium amount significantly north of 700mg per serving. That's over 30 percent of an adult's needs.
Hitting the 600mg to 700mg range seems to be standard with chicken and beef broth. But why? Clearly you can make it yourself with far less sodium by not adding salt. You'll get some, but there's a limit of what can come out of even a kosher chicken. It makes me wonder whether there is any flavor in these commercial offerings, or if salt is all they have going for them?
Hitting the 600mg to 700mg range seems to be standard with chicken and beef broth. But why? Clearly you can make it yourself with far less sodium by not adding salt. You'll get some, but there's a limit of what can come out of even a kosher chicken. It makes me wonder whether there is any flavor in these commercial offerings, or if salt is all they have going for them?
Labels: beef, broth, chicken, Nature's Promise, sodium
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I think you hit the nail on the head with the notion that salt = taste. I like the low-salt/no-salt broths available at Whole Foods and in the natural-food sections of other supermarkets. Once a year, after Thanksgiving, I make a high stockpot of very rich turkey stock. I freeze it in little yogurt containers and use it throughout the year. The last of it usually moistens the stuffing for the following year's turkey. And then the cycle starts over.
Claire @ http://culinary-colorado.blogspot.com
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