When you make your tuna salad, do you add salt?

I now add salt to everything. Doctor’s orders.

I don’t add salt to tuna salad although I am not anti-salt and use it in many things.

I use anchovy paste from a tube (Umami and salt). Chopped celery and onions with a dash of garlic powder.

I do not, not a big fan of salt in general.

I wasn’t either until I landed in the ER with severe salt deficiency @KNOWITALL.

@Dutchess_III
You must be from the planet M-113.

No. I should add salt to everything but I don’t like saltiness like I did when I was young.

@ragingloli You obviously aren’t familiar with the many reasons a doctor may order someone to increase sodium intake.

No I dont add more salt as other foods have salt in them to make up that deficiency.

The canned tuna already has salt in it so, no.

Maybe just a pinch, kind of depends on my taste buds when I sample it; and definitely pepper! Also depends on when in the day I make it. I find that the later it is, the more likely I am to want to add salt (to anything). Things taste saltier in the mornings.

I do, a little, if final taste calls for it. There’s enough other stuff in there that it doesn’t take much.

I add chopsticks to my tuna salad.

Just kidding.
I add salt.

It depends on how it tastes when I get done adding all the ingredients. Often I will add lemon pepper that adds enough zing to make salt unnecessary.

I add lemon juice if it seems bland.

^^I do too. :)

I think what I want is my tuna salad to have a close to perfect balance in saltiness, sweetness and sourness. I put in relish for sweetness. I am toying with the idea of using tiny bits of pineapple instead of relish.

Thanks so much jellies! Really appreciate all your answers. Sure fun reading them.

Oh. I don’t make tuna salad!

What’s so great about salt and pepper?

I make it from a fresh tuna steak from the fish market and I add salt.

Well, @Patty_Melt, our bodies need salt for our neurological functions, and we can’t produce it ourselves so we need to get it from outside sources.

@Dutchess_III I think she was referencing this question:
What’s so special about salt and pepper?

Oh! The First Fluther Question ever!

@raum, indeed! I was reminded of it when reading the question. Then I wondered how many would recognize the reference. My bad, that I misworded it.

@Patty_Melt I got the reference even with the slight mid wording. :)