The production of table salt
The sea salt and salt from salt mines is refined and about 80 minerals are removed, leaving only sodium chloride (NaCl). These minerals are used for other food products. Approximately 70% of the NaCl is used as a source of chlorine for the chemical industry and 25% is used for soil stabilization in construction and keeping roads ice-free. The remaining 5% of the sodium chloride is used for the (table) salt or kitchen salt.
Table salt production
Commercial kitchen salt or table salt that is used in our food as for example preservative or flavour enhancer and to soften water is far from ideal. During the refining of cooking salt, natural sea salt or rock salt, it is stripped of more than 60 trace elements and essential macronutrients. This cooking salt is stripped of all its minerals (except sodium and chloride) and heated to such high temperatures that the chemical structure of the cooking salt changes. In addition, it is chemically cleaned, bleached and treated with an anti-caking agent that prevents the cooking salt from mixing with water in the salt container.
Sea salt - a good alternative?
There is an alternative to commercial kitchen salt. Unrefined sea salt contains minerals and trace elements, good salts that the body can use for many of the roles sodium plays. Sea salt is harvested at the coast; ocean water is channelled into a series of clay-lined ponds. The wind and sun evaporate the ocean water, leaving behind a mineral-rich brine. This salt is collected by hand with wooden tools. This way of harvesting preserves the vital balance of the minerals we need. Even many of the salts labeled sea salt are washed or boiled which removes the minerals and trace elements from the salt. So we recommend looking for unprocessed sea salt. Celtic sea salt is unprocessed sea salt and is extracted off the coast of France in the Guarande region.
Interested in natural products such as Celtic Sea Salt?
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