Sea Salt?

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22-rimfire

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Prior to seeing "sea salt" on just about everything now, I was thinking of buying some of what I thought was real "sea salt". After all, it is supposed to contain all of these natural minerals and so forth that are likely healthier for you. All salt is SEA SALT because it originated from evaporating sea water in the subsurface and forming into thick layers (strata), salt domes and so forth.

Saw this article: http://livingtraditionally.com/salt-fake-need-know/

I think the American public is mostly being scammed as usual. What is your take?
 
Different types of salt have varying crystalline structure which affects the volume to weight ratio and the way it is tasted and dissolves. With that said I wouldn't pay more than a few bucks a pound for any kind of salt.
 
It's along the same line as sea weed extract for plants. Everything in the earth washes into the ocean, so all the elements are present in sea weed. While it works for plants, I'd think it would be a very minimal effect for humans. Because salt wouldn't carry those elements nearly as well as plant matter.
 
We buy sea salt grinders. I like the taste better than the other salt. That's all I know.
 
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We really like Real salt in our house, been using it for years. There is some good info about sea salt in the link.

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Sea salt made now from evaporating ponds probably carry more pollution contaminants than old salt dug up from salt mines.
 
That has always been one of my concerns as well. Not sure if organic contaminants can cling to sea salt from evaporating ponds.

My standard "sea salt" comes from Sam's and I know it is a refined sea salt, hence probably not much "better" in terms of trace minerals than regular refined salt from some of the mines, often a shallow salt dome.
 
Salt is salt. Its the impurities that provide other flavors for good or for bad. Of course Iodine gets added to most table salt in U.S.

You can also pick whether you like a finely ground salt to a "chunky" one. I.e. pickling salt-table salt-kosher salt-rock salt. For seasoning I like kosher salt for the "crunch" without having to run it through a salt grinder. Unlike pepper, there is no taste advantage to "freshly grinding" your salt. For cooking though most recipes call for standard table salt unless otherwise specified.
 
I use Celtic and Himalayan salt. Processed foods, microwave popcorn, and a large list of other foods are unhealthy for humans. Most people I know when they consume salt, is just a matter of flavor. They don't care about benifical value.
 
Awhile ago I was joking about the experation date on the jar of Himalayan salt. Experation date? The stuff is already 250,000,000 years old. Just about that time I saw an article on various salt. it is claimed that Himalayan Pink salt contains 84 minerals. apparently, that's true. Among those 84 minerals are arsenic, radium, uranium, plutonium, thallium, cesium, lead and mercury. :eek: The good news it that are in such minute quantities that they cause no harm. (I hope)
 
Thank you MT Damascus for that image of realsalt. Actually learned something from it.

One thing I have been buying lately and really enjoying is flavored sea salts. Got some Scorpion pepper and ghost pepper sea salts, they add some nice heat and are kind of addicting.
 
Norton has a mine in Windsor Ontario and there is the operation at Golderich Ontario. I was surprised by the number of evaporation operations versus mining. I visited a salt mine in Colombia SA once.
 
I buy salt at Costco, in the grinder. Works good, the price is right, and tastes fine. ;)
 
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