Sea Salt vs table salt: Anybody notice a diff?

We use sea salt. My wife got a jug at the dollar store, so we are using it up. For all I know it is kcl or plain old road salt.
 
Sea salt contains significant amounts of trace minerals. These minerals have a quantifiable taste - I have a salt-free trace mineral concentrate that adds a nice flavor without adding salt. Not only that but a good trace mineral blend is very good for you in moderation.

Sea salt or Himalayan salt will give more flavor than table salt because of the extra minerals they provide.
 
To me, sea salt - whatever the brand - tastes better than regular commercial table salt.
 
Sea salt has lower sodium per unit because some of the salts it contains are compounds like potassium chloride, magnesium sulfate, calcium carbonate and the like.

To a chemist, a 'salt' is any of a number of ionic compounds that result from the neutralization of an acid and a base. Some of those compounds are alleged to add distinctive flavors to sea salt that the commercial product, which is almost entirely sodium chloride, lacks. I haven't tried it, but I will now.
 
Coarse kosher sea salt, no additives, run thru a pepper grinder. All the difference in the world in taste between this stuff and the iodized stuff that pours when it rains.
 
well, the way i see it, the majority of people get more than enough salt in their diet. so i dont really add salt to very many things, i occasionally use a bit when cooking. just generic table salt though, and in very small quantities. its one of those things that might take getting used to (using very little to no salt) but once you do, you end up preferring it as everything else will taste too salty. same deal (for me at least) with drinking skim milk and not buttering bread
 
A significant difference between the two is that non-iodized sea salt will actually contribute to healthy blood pressure where processed table salt will elevate it.

And yes, the trace minerals contained in sea salt will absloutely have a beneficial effect on one's health. Our bodies are electrical organisms, and minerals conduct that electricity. Concentrace brand trace minerals (derived from Utah's Great Salt Lake) used to provide a test kit to retailers. You run a lead from a battery into a glass of water, then another lead to a small light bulb. Of course nothing would happen. Then you'd start dropping the minerals, drop by drop, into the glass, and the bulb would start to glow. By the time you had twenty to thirty drops in it would be glowing at full brightness. I have done this myself, and it is clear evidence of the conductive nature of trace minerals.
 
Pure water is an excellent electrical insulator. But most water contains ions which make it conductive as evidenced by all the warning labels about using appliances while bathing and all of the reports of electrocutions which seem to involve water in one way or another.

Common table salt is sodium chloride. In water, the sodium and the chlorine separated forming Na+ and Cl- ions which turn the water into an electrical conductor.

The human body is very electical and those electrical currents are largely conducted through water with ions in it. Those ions need to come from somewhere and salts in our diet are the major source.
 
zenheretic said:
Sorry but that is impossible.
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Zen is indeed correct. It's the sodium that some people have a problem with, not the iodine.

Curiously, some people don't even have a problem with the sodium, for that matter.
 
Samael said:
Zen is indeed correct. It's the sodium that some people have a problem with, not the iodine.

Curiously, some people don't even have a problem with the sodium, for that matter.
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One may tend to use a little -- little -- less sea salt than more common iodinized table salt simply because, as noted above, sea salts tend to contain other minerals which lend flavors so the user achieves more flavor in his food with less salt added. But, I suspect that the reduction is not enough to make a difference for someone who needs to reduce sodium intake for medical reasons.
 
I use a potassium-based salt, because we all get far more sodium than we need or is safe to have in our bodies.

I suspect the main reason sodium is in almost everything packaged and processed is because it's CHEAPER than potassium.
 
once when i worked in a grocery store a lady asked me to help her find sald that wasnt iodized. i told her all we had was sea salt. she didnt want it claiming that it tastes fishy. i rolled my eyes and told her if she'd ever had it she'd know that it didnt. she walked away angrily as that was the only salt we had that didnt say iodized
 
When you hold the sea salt shaker to your ear, you can hear the ocean.
 
SkinnyJoe said:
I use a potassium-based salt, because we all get far more sodium than we need or is safe to have in our bodies.

I suspect the main reason sodium is in almost everything packaged and processed is because it's CHEAPER than potassium.
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Salt makes sweeter things taste sweeter, bitter things taste less bitter, increased canned vegetables size, and aids in preservation are just some of the reasons it is used so much.

There just so happens to be a relevant article on the subject.

Be careful with the potassium as a "salt" substitute. As you may know to much potassium can give you arrhythmias. In fact, before they knew better, potassium salt substitute was quite popular.
 
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