Sea Salt. Yet another fad or something special? (organic, health, French)

[kanhawk]

Anyone notice a difference or is this just more marketing to the gullible?

[Wilson513]

Salt has flavor. Just try some of the extreme versions first then work back to comparatively inexpensive fine grain sea salt.

Here's a starting point. Hand harvested crystals from French clay drying chambers: http://www.amazon.com/Salt--Harveste...9222411&sr=8-1

[elnina]

It is different! It has everything still intact in it. Minerals...
The table salt like sugar and flour - is stripped of everything, and bleached
Sea salt is unrefined and a natural source of at least 21 essential minerals, including magnesium, potassium, calcium, sodium, sulfur, iron, copper and more. Keep in mind that sea salt contain much less iodine, which is added to table salt.
Regular table salt (iodized salt) is refined to remove other nutrients so it's made of 97.5% sodium chloride, but it's fortified with iodine.
Sea salt makes food taste better, and will not elevate your blood pressure.
10 Health Benefits of Sea Salt
Info about sea salt:
Sea Salt & Gourmet Salts - Guide | SaltWorks


Part of the process for refined salt, or commercial table salt, involves the use of aluminum, ferro cyanide and bleach. These are all toxic materials that your body takes in with refined, commercial salt. And because of that process, almost all the vital minerals that real, unrefined salt can offer are removed! One or two servings of refined salt won`t send you to the grave. But continued almost daily use will avail you to the perils of aluminum toxicity. Ferro cyanide is listed by the EPA as a toxic material for human consumption. You are probably aware of the hazards to human health of chlorine, which is used to bleach the salt.

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/026080_sa...#ixzz1bRaQ4AB1

[Dogmama50]

I love sea salt and have been using it long before it was a fad, much better flavor and quality than regular salt. I must have 10 different kinds in my spice cabinet, all unique and suited for certain foods.

[TabulaRasa]

While there are differences in tastes and textures, ultimately, salt is salt.

[Bunjee]

The difference is mostly in texture, and since table salt is tinier there's more saltiness. But I have detected a difference in flavor (maybe because I was looking for it) with anti-caking additives used in table salt. I also like that for other non-cooking purposes you sometimes don't want iodized salt. The bottom line, though, is that at the 99 Cents Only store a box of sea salt is about the same price as regular salt--not expensive at all--so why not just use it instead?

[hey teach]

My husband has menniere's disease and he is not supposed to eat salt at all. The nutritionist said if he eats salt it should be sea salt because the sodium content is less.

[kanhawk]

OK I'm convinced it's more than a fad and will give it a try myself.

Originally Posted by hey teach

My husband has menniere's disease and he is not supposed to eat salt at all. The nutritionist said if he eats salt it should be sea salt because the sodium content is less.

Interesting. My father was diagnosed with it also in the 1960s but they never told him not to eat salt. They may have not known about that at the time. I wonder if it would have helped him...he had terrible vertigo from it.
Anyway glad your husband can have the sea salt.

[Wilson513]

I think that most people will notice a difference in just getting a finer grind of salt. I only use sea salt and have several types, but the most generic one I use has a finer grind than typical Morton;s and gets compliments and I think it is just the finer grind.

The hand harvested salt crystals are super on salads where the crystals remain in tact until they melt in the mouth. Very nice. Wasted in cooking IMO.

So bottom line, get some grocery store finely ground sea salt.

[Ron.]

fade, just like Greek yogurt, bottled water,Crocs,