I am just wondering if snuff contains any salt? Since I am too low in my daily uptake (makes the bloodpressure low!) as a result of medication I have to take. If I can keep up my daily salt uptake also by using snuff, I would be very pleased. Does anyone know which snuffs are high in salt in particular?

F&T Santo Domingo is high in salt, when is starts to dry out you can actually see salt crystals

Salt is used in snuff for various reasons such as flavour enhancement, to minimise or stop fermentation and as a natural preservative. I use a little locally made sea-salt in some of my snuffs and I believe Johnny Scott does too in some of his. Snuffs do not all follow the same chemical model or make-up so there is not a fixed ratio and some will have none at all.

Historical snuffs can contain anything from 0 / 15% salt depending on the recipe. Jaap Bes.

thanks for the input so far. Upto 15% is quite something as it sounds. My own findings so far: I contacted both Wilsons and McChrystals with the question if salt is used in their recipes. McChrystals said they only use potash. Wilsons (F&T) some of their snuffs contain salt, some potash and some both. Of course the manufacturers won’t reveal much of recipes content. Let’s respect that! On a tobacco growers site is said that tobacco naturally doesn’t contain very much salt (natrium). If the plant absorbed too much salt from the soil, the leaves change in colour and then they are disapproved for manufacturing. And on some health sites this story is added to with the fact that tobacco naturally contains much more potash (kalium) instead. Just as with the other nightshade family of plants like potatoes, spinach and tomatoes. Both natrium and kalium are important in my (and other’s) case. A deficit of either of both causes serious trouble in the body. So tobacco with added salt serves both of the needs. Probably reason why 18th century doctor’s often prescribed using tobacco as a medicine.

I assumed that F&T Princes contained a goodly amount of salt, witness the corrosion it causes of the aluminum tin it is packaged in. Guess it could be potash though.

Dietary intake of salts will not be through your nose.

Dietary intake of salts will not be through your nose.

Why not, just as with the nicotine, what you put in your nose is absorbed by the mucous membrane and taken up by the bloodstream. Of course, I can take a daily tea spoon of salt orally which I sometimes do.

And so why is it that you don’t take a daily tea spoon of salt nasally?

haha! Salt has taste, but no smell so why please the nose with that? :))

while i admit my medical knowledge is limited, i doubt that the intake of salt in snuff would change the amount of dietary sodium in the body. might be better to add a bit of salt to your coffee or drink some gatorade etc.

The salt in snuff (if present) has the function of giving a halt to the fermentation process. But I sure believe there is a reaction to it in the body too, if administred to the nose. The tobacco we all sniff causes reaction in the brain and bloodstream, so why not the salt? I’m not a medic too, but it seems logical to me like this.