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Flapjack made with salted butter?

freehubfreehub Posts: 4,257
edited April 2010 in The bottom bracket
Hi.

Just wondering really, I went and bought some butter as I'm gonna make flapjack for my rides, but I went and got salted butter this time, did not look properly, rather than wasting it, cause I sure as hell won't eat it any other time, is it ok to use it to make flapjack that I'd eat on a bike ride. I'm only asking as I know too much salt can cause dehydration, or would the amount of salt just replace what is lost?

It requires 200G of unsalted butter and 400g of oats, this butter has 1.75g of salt per 100g

Would this end up dehydrating me?


Thanks
Will.

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  • bompingtonbompington Posts: 7,674
    No
  • ProssPross Posts: 31,602
    Don't electrolyte drinks make big claims about how much salt they replace and how losing salt reduces performance? Salt makes you thirsty but don't think it dehydrates you. Most butter is salted anyway isn't it? It's only disgusting stuff like Lurpak that isn't.
  • freehubfreehub Posts: 4,257
    Thinking about salt I decided to post this:

    http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/in ... 851AA4FBqB

    Can't believe how easy it is to go over my daily allowance. I bet my body is being buggered already by it. Some days I have 2 cans of beans, that alone is 128% daily allowance of salt.
  • bompingtonbompington Posts: 7,674
    freehub wrote:
    Thinking about salt I decided to post this:

    http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/in ... 851AA4FBqB

    Can't believe how easy it is to go over my daily allowance. I bet my body is being buggered already by it. Some days I have 2 cans of beans, that alone is 128% daily allowance of salt.
    Must be fun drafting you...
  • freehubfreehub Posts: 4,257
    bompington wrote:
    freehub wrote:
    Thinking about salt I decided to post this:

    http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/in ... 851AA4FBqB

    Can't believe how easy it is to go over my daily allowance. I bet my body is being buggered already by it. Some days I have 2 cans of beans, that alone is 128% daily allowance of salt.
    Must be fun drafting you...

    It's a myth you know that beans make you fart.
  • ColinJColinJ Posts: 2,218
    freehub wrote:
    It's a myth you know that beans make you fart.
    It might be for you but it certainly isn't for me!

    Baked beans = farts; Kidney beans = farts; Chick peas = farts; Butter beans = farts... :oops:
  • freehubfreehub Posts: 4,257
    I never looked much at the back of a can of bakes beans, 22g of protein per can!!!!!

    Now that's a recovery drink, blended bakes peans with some milk! :lol:
  • shockedsoshockedshockedsoshocked Posts: 4,021
    freehub wrote:
    Thinking about salt I decided to post this:

    http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/in ... 851AA4FBqB

    Can't believe how easy it is to go over my daily allowance. I bet my body is being buggered already by it. Some days I have 2 cans of beans, that alone is 128% daily allowance of salt.

    You'll sweat out the majority of it if you ride your bike on a daily basis, so it will need to be replaced anyway.
    "A cyclist has nothing to lose but his chain"

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  • AnonymousAnonymous Posts: 79,667
    edited April 2010
    freehub wrote:
    Hi.

    Just wondering really, I went and bought some butter as I'm gonna make flapjack for my rides, but I went and got salted butter this time, did not look properly, rather than wasting it, cause I sure as hell won't eat it any other time, is it ok to use it to make flapjack that I'd eat on a bike ride. I'm only asking as I know too much salt can cause dehydration, or would the amount of salt just replace what is lost?

    It requires 200G of unsalted butter and 400g of oats, this butter has 1.75g of salt per 100g

    Would this end up dehydrating me?


    Thanks

    Stop worrying. :wink:
  • rakerake Posts: 3,204
    countless number of people tried to shoot me down when i pointed this out. salt hydrates you better not worse. you are 98% saltwater freehub other wise your brain would swell and heart probably stop.
    http://www.bikeradar.com/fitness/articl ... rink-25744
  • freehubfreehub Posts: 4,257
    Eh, we're around 70% water.
  • ExeterSimonExeterSimon Posts: 830
    freehub wrote:
    Eh, we're around 70% water.

    Thought it was around 60% for geezers and around 55% for chicks? Might be wrong tho...haven't done any non practical biology for 21 years.
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  • nax-iannax-ian Posts: 209
    On the "fart" topic, I heard or read( cant remember) that its the skins of beans an pulses which trap/ hold intestinal gases as they pass through our systems. An then as they work their way to the ...er.. end of the line the gas is released. Aahhh
    Finished
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