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Healthy Home Economist / Archives / Healthy Living / Salt and Pepper in Bone Broth: Do’s and Don’ts

Salt and Pepper in Bone Broth: Do’s and Don’ts

by Sarah Pope / Affiliate Links ✔

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  • Bone Broth Needs Salt and Pepper!
  • When to Skip the Pepper

salt and pepperSalt and pepper. Who could find fault with these most basic of traditional seasonings that have improved the flavor and palatability of food for millennia?

From black tailed waiters serving up beautiful jars of colorful sea salt crystals and freshly ground peppercorns at high end restaurants to the local diner with plastic black and white shakers on tables, these two seasonings have always gone together as the most primary way to flavor food. 

Bone Broth Needs Salt and Pepper!

Homemade broths and soups in particular benefit from the addition of salt and pepper to taste.

The problem is that while unrefined sea salt is a very healthy seasoning to use as desired, pepper can be downright problematic and a potential two-edged sword for those with digestive complaints.

This may come as a surprise as pepper is allowed on the GAPS, a temporary diet for healing and sealing the gut wall in order to put symptoms of autoimmune disease into remission.

Pepper can indeed be helpful on the GAPS Diet. Black pepper in particular is especially favored by Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride MD author of the GAPS book, Gut and Psychology Syndrome.

The reason is because it stimulates stomach acid production, hence facilitating proper and complete assimilation of food. Sufficient stomach acid production is enough to prevent symptoms of reflux, for example.

However, Dr. Campbell-McBride recommends that the use of pepper be adjusted for individual cases particularly if the pepper proves to be irritating.

When to Skip the Pepper

GAPS Certified Practitioner Kim Schuette of Biodynamicwellness in San Diego reports that all peppercorns, not just black, are best avoided in the early stages of the GAPS Diet as they are an irritant of the gastrointestinal tract and the mucosal lining of the stomach in particular.

Individuals who may not be on the GAPS Diet but who suffer from gastritis and ulcers, as well as those who do not tolerate nightshades (eggplant, potatoes, tomatoes, peppers) should also avoid peppercorns.

Avoidance of pepper is not a permanent thing. Ideally as the gut lining heals on the GAPS or similar healing diet (SCD, Autoimmune Paleo etc), these issues should resolve and pepper should be tolerated.

Fortunately, during this period of time when both ground pepper and peppercorns are avoided as the gut heals, sea salt should still be used to taste to flavor soups, broths and other foods. Sea salt, like pepper, is very beneficial to production of proper stomach acids and digestive enzymes. Given that the best sea salt is unrefined and never heated, it is best to add this traditional seasoning to broths and soups at the table to avoid the extended heating of the long simmering process.

Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist

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Sarah Pope

Sarah Pope MGA has been a Health and Nutrition Educator since 2002. She is a summa cum laude graduate in Economics from Furman University and holds a Master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

She is the author of three books: Amazon #1 bestseller Get Your Fats Straight, Traditional Remedies for Modern Families, and Living Green in an Artificial World.

Her four eBooks Good Diet…Bad Diet, Real Food Fermentation, Ketonomics, and Ancestrally Inspired Dairy-Free Recipes are available for complimentary download via Healthy Home Plus.

Her mission is dedicated to helping families effectively incorporate the principles of ancestral diets within the modern household. She is a sought after lecturer around the world for conferences, summits, and podcasts.

Sarah was awarded Activist of the Year in 2010 at the International Wise Traditions Conference, subsequently serving on the Board of Directors of the nutrition nonprofit the Weston A. Price Foundation for seven years.

Her work has been covered by numerous independent and major media including USA Today, ABC, and NBC among many others.

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  1. Irving

    Feb 28, 2014 at 11:11 pm

    Sarah,
    I wonder if sea salt is any better. But I found your post very informative and useful. Thanks for posting.

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