A staple for the ancient Incans. Or at least, something very much like it.
No, but animals will seek out any handy naturally occurring salt lick in order to supplement their diet.
I was very surprised to find out that this was one of Benjamin Franklin’s favorite foods! It was called “soybean cheese” and he liked it breaded and fried.
“Fruit By The Foot”, perhaps?
A reminder of your question:
Hey, salt doesn’t have much of a nutritional value, does it?
Fat free mayonnaise. That’s basically fat free fat. Also, diet soda (altho I guess the water in it has some nutritional value).
Believe it or not, there are some fat-free, or at least low-fat, versions. I don’t even want to think about what they’re made of, or that anyone would think these things were healthy.
Or fat-free cheese. UGH!
Wax soda bottle candies.
Yeah, I should have put it clearer for you nitpickers :). Excess salt doesn’t add to the nutritional value of the food. Happy so?
That applies to every single food substance on Earth, by definition.
Cotton candy? It looks like pink wool.
Then I looked up Google. Japanese wasp crackers (or mealworm cookies, which aren’t Japanese as far as I can tell). Dragon of the flame of desire, from China, which is a male yak’s … manhood. Escamol from Mexico, which consists of insect larvae and pupae (also called bug caviar).
Needless to say, I wouldn’t eat any of those weird foods I found on Google.
Excess? An excess of anything isn’t a good idea. That’s what excess means. I wasn’t nitpicking and I’m always happy.
Not really. Whether or not excess salt adds “nutritional value” (it is needed in general, so I presume you mean whether it improves the health of the eater) depends on what one is regularly eating. Same as with all other nutrients. If your regular diet is deficient in sodium, then yes, it absolutely adds nutritional value. If you mean “excess beyond whats optimal” then no, but then that’s the answer for absolutely everything.
I would bet that most are just fine (I don’t believe in labeling foods “healthy” or “unhealthy”). This one looks great:
… veeeeering this back on track:
- Jarred marshmallow fluff.
- Actually, marshmallows in general. Including the ones in cereal like Lucky Charms.
- Fun Yuns (those imitation onion rings snacks, in case those aren’t internationally recognized. Are they?)
I’d quibble about peanut butter. That’s just ground nut paste, something consumed in a lot of cultures since ancient times.
Dammit, I want a bag of FunYuns now.
Those aren’t marshmallows. They’re made from rejected Circus Peanuts.
Those tropical chocolate bars we used to get in our c-rats or for that matter any boxes of modern MREs
Fruit drinks that do not have any of the nominate fruit. Yesterday I saw plastic sachets of various fruit drinks that were labeled to suggest natural, but the label I read (which happened to be lychee, there wee the usual suspects, ending with “artuficial lychee flavor”.
I didn’t look, but there are probably sugar-free fruit drinks that contain nothing but water, chemical sweetener, food coloring, and artificial fruit flavor.
For those who don’t appreciate it’s glorious goodness: SPAM