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The Lost Book of Preserving Food Naturally

grid would result in the deaths of as much as 90% of our population within the first year.
Most of those people would die of starvation. Without the ability to feed yourself and

your family, you could become one of those fatalities.

So learning how to preserve food is an important survival skill. As long as you are

dependent on the food distribution network to feed you, you are at risk. Being able to

grow your own food and then preserve what you grow, could very well make the
difference between life and death for your family.

Salt & Sugar – Nature’s Preservatives
Modern food-processing plants use a wide variety of chemical preservatives to kill

bacteria and prevent food going bad. But there is no need for all those chemicals, whose

names we can’t pronounce. Nature herself has provided us with preservatives which we

can use to keep food from spoiling; salt and sugar.

Both salt and sugar work by essentially the same method, although they are not normally
used for the same foods. Sugar is usually only used as a preservative for fruit, while salt

is used for pretty much everything else. So you are much more likely to encounter salt

being used as a preservative, than sugar.

All life needs some salt, especially animal life. But the amount of salt needed to preserve

life is minimal. You and I have salt in our bodies. The amount of salt is critical, as too little
salt makes it difficult for our bodies to hold in enough water and too much salt makes it

so that we retain excessive water. An excess of salt can also cause a variety of health

problems.

But we aren’t concerned about how much salt is in the body; we’re concerned about using

salt for a preservative. In that regard, we need to understand osmosis.

Osmosis is the scientific term for a natural process in which water (or another solvent)
passes through a semi-permeable membrane, to equalize the concentration of the

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