salt substitute

English

a typical package of salt substitute

Noun

salt substitute (plural salt substitutes)

2. A substance that tastes salty and stands in for table salt (which is mostly sodium chloride) but contains substantially less sodium; usually somewhere between half as much and nearly zero.

Related terms

• salt shaker

Translations

a substance that tastes salty but contains less sodium than table salt

• Hungarian: sópótló, sóhelyettesítő

See also

• potassium chloride (often a salt substitute or a chief ingredient thereof)