salt
adding flavor adding taste to food binding water in body brush teeth cure meat curing meat deicing drive way enhancing flavor flavor food flavoring food flavouring food food give food flavor keeping evil spirits away kill slug killing slugs maintaining cellular moisture balance make taste better melt ice melting ice melting ice on roads poison field preserve meat preserving food preserving meat putting on chips rim margarita glass rub in wound rubbing in salting meals season seasoning seasoning food soften water softening water survival