in thinking its the same thing....

[biddysmama]

my nana is adamant that there was no salt in the veg (i didnt want 14 month old dd eating it) because she salted the water and not the veg...

(i probably abu for stressing about dd eating salt, she eats alot of cheese and bread which has salt, i dont want her having extra salt as well)

of course it is the same thing.
why do people do that? surely you are not getting the proper flavour if you add salt at ANY stage??

she said that the salt is in the water and she drained the veg so theres no salt on the veg....

according to Heston Blumenthal, very little salt is absorbed if you salt the water.

Google seems to agree - "very little salt is actually absorbed onto the surface of a bean during cooking ? typically 1/10 000 g of salt per bean which is too little to be tasted by most people."

buy her a steamer.
There will be traces of salt, but not as much as if salt was added after. Did it taste salty? Adding salt to water raises the temperature the boils at and therefore cooks it faster. It all depends how much salt she added to the water really. If it was just a pinch then i think yabu, if it was a tablespoon then yanbu.

It isi the same thing. My MIL once cooked some broccoli at my house helping out with dinner and I couldn't eat it as it tasted so salty. It was absolutely vile. I would not let a child that age eat it.