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I am concerned about salt in-take. I have noticed salt being an ingredient used in vegan cooking. Should I be concerned about cooking with it? Do Rouxbe recipes have nutrient info?

Ask Me Anything (Office Hours)

Dan Marek - Ask Me Anything (Office Hours)

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Question

Debra Bell

I am concerned about salt in-take. I have noticed salt being an ingredient used in vegan cooking. Should I be concerned about cooking with it? Do Rouxbe recipes have nutrient info?

Answer

So salt is included in a lot of recipes. It's actually, um, in a lot of the Rouxbe recipes, it's much lower amount than would be in other recipes. So if you're doing a non wholefood plant-based diet, you are gonna find that there's a lot of salt in those. Um, at a typical culinary school, it's fat and salt are two of the things you add to be able to add flavors. So you'll find that a lot of, um, things have, a lot of salt restaurants in particular have very high salt contents. Um, and so you do want to pay attention to that nut nutri nutrient info. Um, the Rouxbe recipes don't actually have nutrient info. There are a few that do, but most of them do not. Um, so feel free to omit the sugar or the, uh, the salt on those or actually just do much less. Um, and just like anything else, you can add a little bit and then add as time goes to be able to see if you're getting the correct flavor that you want on that.

Dan Marek

Director of Plant-Based Culinary & Dev

*Dan Marek* is a chef educator who has been teaching vegan and vegetarian cooking for over 15 years. At Rouxbe, he is our Director of Plant-Based Culinary and Development where he helps develop content, classes and builds courses for many of our partners. Dan is a board member of Slow Food Austin, the Institute of Child Nutrition, and Conscious Capitalism. He has earned his BA in Journalism from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University and holds certificates in Nutrition from Cornell University. Prior to his role with Rouxbe, Dan worked with Whole Kids Foundation training teachers and food service at schools across the country on nutrition and culinary best practices. He also worked as a Healthy Eating Educator at Whole Foods Market’s flagship store in Austin, TX, was a personal chef for some of Austin’s elite business people, taught classes in culinary techniques at Austin Community College, The Natural Epicurean, and Le Cordon Bleu. Dan also regularly volunteers cooking or speaking about nutrition for the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, Marathon Kids, Health Alliance for Austin Musicians, and the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Austin and Central Texas.