salted

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Cramped inside vessels overladen with precious cargo, crewmembers subsisted on a miserable diet of hardtack, an unleavened bread, and salted meat and fish that routinely spoiled and left many gravely ill.

From Barron's • Apr. 28, 2026

For most of human history, the diet was a prisoner of the seasons and dictated by whatever could be smoked, pickled, salted or buried in a dark cellar.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

At Sainsbury's the range is similarly extensive with orange marmalade, salted caramel, carrot, cherry, rhubarb, ginger and cinnamon.

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026

Maekar recoils at the thought of a child of royal birth subsisting on salted beef.

From Salon • Feb. 23, 2026

One recent morning she had served him a bungled breakfast of sugared eggs and salted coffee, then blamed it all on “a silly dream”—but a dream the power of daylight had not dispersed.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote