Chicken stock/stock cubes.

[demi]

For the first time since I've been in France, I cooked a dish yesterday that required chicken stock.

I used Maggi vollaile bouliion cubes & made it up as directed on the pack. To me it spoilt the dish as it was an overwhelming taste of salt & little else.

Back in the UK I used Knoor stock cubes & was fine with them.

I wonder if it could be me as I have had several taste changes post Covid - I now loathe bananas & used to eat them daily!

Any recommendations?

[MAD87]

If you can find the jelly-like stock cubes in individual tubs, they're not so salty imo. T hey've disappeared from the shelves here unfortunately.

[Blaze]

Ah yes, we've found a lot of stock cubes are horribly over-salted. We use the Maggi Bio ones which have less salt and use half the amount they suggest. The salt content of stock cubes varies hugely - it's best to check the packets first !

I've never liked salt, I don't know why, and I've always likened it to people who can't stand sugar in their tea or coffee. We check the salt and sugar content on everything these days - pasta sauces are the worst but you can find some that aren't salt-laden.

[Pathca]

I’ve had taste issues since Covid,especially tea (the drink) I have a bit of a cold/hay fever at the moment and my taste is affected again I even did a LFT just in case but it’s negative

[Spectrum]

I agree about the "Stock" cubes being too salty, I break it in half, before I used the little "Jelly" pots Beef & Chicken but not seen them for months.

[L Austin France]

Ditto with jelly pots. Used to use 'em but non existant recently.
We're now well stocked? up with OXO cubes mrs LAF brings (smuggles) back from the UK .
Reading the beef cube info it says 1 cube per 109ml of water & contains 0.95gm of salt per 100ml of prepared stock.

[tagh]

Some of the well-known makes boast a 25% salt reduction on the box

[demi]

Thank you all. I will have a look for the 'jelly' ones & for Bio ones as well.

[Hotrodder]

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[Char]

Magi and knorr do lower salt vegetable stock cubes, I don't know if they do meat ones as well though.