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salted

salted

1.0
Food preserved with salt so it lasts longer
  • adjective
  • /ˈsɔltɪd/
translation icon : salado
  • Hannah, the time has come to talk about the scary dessert: the Salted Whiskey Caramel Fool, which is intimidating enough to deserve all those capitalizations.
  • Salted Caramel
  • Salted Egg

Examples

  • The chef prepared a delicious dish of salted fish, enhancing its flavor for preservation.

  • Enjoy your food salted to taste and your heart will actually thank you.

  • I got the same as you, but with salted caramel foam.

  • It's a bowl of steamed and salted edamame and life is good.

  • Plus all the raw, organic, roasted, salted and candied nuts you can imagine.

  • We will be selling some of our popular items, such as the Salted Caramel and Chocolate Ganache Tarts and Blueberry Lavender Jam.

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  • He enjoyed a snack of salted almonds while watching the game.

  • The recipe called for salted pork, which adds to the overall taste of the stew.

Synonyms

salt-cured
vssalted
1 3.8

Made with salt so meat or fish do not go bad

is the same meaning but differs in word form or style
brine-cured
vssalted
6.7

Meat or other food is soaked in salty water to keep it from spoiling

uses salt directly rather than soaking in a saltwater solution
cured
vssalted
3.2

Food preserved with salt, smoke, or drying

is narrower using salt specifically rather than many methods

Antonyms

unsalted
9 1.0

Food that does not have salt added

How Preserved

preserved
3.0
cured
3.2
salted
1.0
fresh
778 1.0

Surface Forms

salted positive

Morphology

salted = salt (transparent) = salt + ed

Standard adjectival/past-participle formation from the verb 'salt', meaning 'preserved or seasoned with salt'.

Etymology

Salted comes from the simple word salt, because people long ago used salt to preserve food by drawing out water and keeping it safe. So salted means food that has been preserved or cured with 'salt'.