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

The possible answers were plain flour, salted butter, egg yolk and double cream.

From BBC • Apr. 26, 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

Under the glow of fluorescent lights at Seafood City market in North Hills, packages of premade adobo, salted shrimp fry and and dried anchovies glisten in meat coolers.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2025

I always thought she was being mean for limiting his favorite salted nuts, but she was trying to keep him healthy.

From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh