What Your Food Cravings Say About Your Health

Craving salt

"Salt - or sodium - is needed for muscle function among other things in the body. For the vast majority of cases, a salt craving is merely a just a preference in the moment for something savoury and is absolutely nothing to worry about," the dietitian tells Cosmopolitan.Occasionally, a salt craving may be your body's way of "trying to correct an imbalance of the mineral in the body, like dehydration or electrolyte imbalance, for example. These can both be caused by vomiting and diarrhoea or excessive sweating," adds Jo.