Beware of "Sea salt" Labels
On the labels of many
packaged food, in supermarkets as well as health food stores the name
"sea salt" appears often. Reading this, we feel safe and reassured,
thinking that when it comes to the salt part of the ingredients, all is
fine...
But All Is Not Fine!
This supermarket or health food store "sea salt" has been totally refined. At its origin, it may have come from the sea, but:
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put through many degrading artificial processes;
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robbed of all of its essential minerals that are essential to our physiology;
These elements are extracted and sold separately to industry. Precious and highly prized by the salt refiners, these bring more profits than the salt itself. -
further adulterated by chemical additives to make it free- flowing, bleached, and iodized.
To call what remains "natural sea salt"
would be very misleading.
In addition, harmful chemicals have been added to the processed, altered unnatural substance to mask and cover up all of the impurities it has. These added chemicals include free flowing agents, inorganic iodine, plus dextrose and bleaching agents.
In addition, harmful chemicals have been added to the processed, altered unnatural substance to mask and cover up all of the impurities it has. These added chemicals include free flowing agents, inorganic iodine, plus dextrose and bleaching agents.
Standard salt additives: Potassium-Iodide (added
to the salt to avoid Iodine deficiency disease of thyroid gland), Sugar (added to
stabilize Iodine and as anti-caking chemical), Aluminum silicate.
To know more about how the salt processing plant process a natural sea salt? go here