How does salt lose its flavor?

Answer 1

If you eat too much of it you stop being able to taste it. Although it doesn't lose the flavor technically you do.

Answer 2

“You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt should lose its taste, how can it be made salty? It’s no longer good for anything but to be thrown out and trampled on by men.
Matthew 5:13

Much salt in Palestine, such as that found on the shores of the Dead Sea, is contaminated with gypsum and other minerals that make it taste flat and even repulsive. When a batch of such contaminated salt would find its way into a household and be discovered, it was thrown out. People would be careful not to throw it on a garden or field, because it would kill whatever was planted. Instead it would be thrown onto a path or road, where it would gradually be ground into the dirt and disappear.

There is a sense in which salt cannot really become unsalty. But contamination can cause it to lose its value as salt. Its saltiness can no longer function.
—MacArthur New Testament Commentary, The

“Loses its saltiness” reads more literally “is defiled.” This is not the scientifically impossible notion of salt becoming flavorless but rather the common problem in the ancient world of salt being mixed with various impure substances and therefore becoming worthless as a preservative.—New American Commentary

Answer 3

This was a metaphorical question asked by Jesus. Real salt cannot lose its flavor, so that was kind of his point, I think. Any salt that no longer tastes salty is either very impure, or else it was not salt to begin with.

Likewise, a Christian who no longer acts with a pure and holy character probably was not a true Christian to begin with (salt was ceremonially used by the Jews to bless things as a symbol of purity).

Answer 4

We as Christiian are the Salt of the earth. So when Jesus speaks about salt losing it's flavor, he speaks about Chrisitans who are not active, in spreading the gospel and changing lives. He is talking to nominal Christians, only Christians by name, Not making any difference. Christains are really suppose to be very different from the world, Too many of us have conformed to the world instead of being transformed by God, That's how we lose our flavor, because most of us, have lost our fire. If you are saved, remember when you first got saved you told everybody about God, you loved everyone, you tried your hardest not to sin, look at you now. Comfortable, when was the lat time you did something that wasn't selfish?

Answer 5

it loses it's flavor after having been used too many times. back before refrigeration salt was used (then scraped off and reused) to preserve meat eventually it would absorb so much of the juices and such that it would no longer be any good i.e. lose its flavor

Answer 6

pure salt never loses flavor

Answer 7

For salt to lose its saltiness, it would have to be diluted in water because it is non-reactive in its crystalline form.

So, for the Christian, for the salt of the earth, to lose his degree of saltiness, the Gospel would have to diluted in his life. This person is the complacent Christian, the person who does not protect the Truth of the gospel in his life. This person mixes the Truth with a myriad of other ideologies.

It is then that you are good for nothing in the kingdom.

Answer 8

The Salt and Light metaphors in the Sermon on the Mount include a direct reference to salt: "You are the salt of the earth. But if salt loses its taste, with what can it be seasoned? It is no longer good for anything but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot." (Matthew 5:13). This verse is paralleled in Luke 14:34-35: "Salt is good, but if salt itself loses its taste, with what can its flavor be restored? It is fit neither for the soil nor for the manure pile; it is thrown out. Whoever has ears to hear ought to hear." Similarly, in Mark 9:49-50, Jesus says that "Everyone will be salted with fire. Salt is good, but if salt becomes insipid, with what will you restore its flavor? Keep salt in yourselves and you will have peace with one another."

Jesus is simply saying that everybody has inherent value. Keep God’s gift of inherent worth inside yourself (cherish God's gift) and you will have peace with one another.

Answer 9

It has a *really* long lifetime. Salt from mines usually comes from seas or salt lakes that dried up millions of years ago.

CD

Answer 10

Salt is actually a mineral--not a spice. Therefore, it does not lose its flavor over time like spices and herbs do.