If your food ends up too salty, add one of these 5 ingredients to neutralize and make your dish more delicious

5. Add sugar. Try incorporating a pinch of sugar (white sugar or brown sugar) or a sweetener like maple syrup to counteract saltiness. Sweet and salty is a classic flavor combination because of sugar’s ability to balance out the saltiness in food

How to Preventing Oversalted Food

Foods can go from perfectly salted to oversalted quickly. Here are a few tips to prevent you from over-salting food while you cook:

1. Follow the recipe instructions. If a recipe calls for low-sodium ingredients, such as low-sodium soy sauce or unsalted broth, make sure to use those specific ingredients. Otherwise, if you use the salted versions and still add the amount of salt the recipe calls for, the end result will be overly salty.

2. Measure the salt carefully. Many home cooks become confident in cooking, to the point where measuring salt becomes an afterthought. This works some of the time, but other times can cause a salty dish. Avoid using a salt shaker to just shake salt into a dish or eyeballing a pinch of salt to replace a proper measurement if you want to ensure your dish has just the right amount of salt.

3. Use the right salt. Table salt, sea salt, and Kosher salt each have different salinity levels. If a recipe calls for one type of salt, you should use that specific salt or research conversion amounts to ensure the final dish isn’t overly salty.