Sea salt vs. table salt

So let me get this straight,... the government (FDA) is allowing evaporated ocean water to be sold? With no processing? With all dissolved impurities intact? What's wrong with this picture?
 
I prefer the taste of sea salt, yes I can taste the difference. Yes, it is probably less pure than table salt, not because of origin (which is sea water for both), but because table salt goes through more purification.

Table salt has some additives that prevents it from clumping, sea salt does not.

I dont think either matters for preparing a salt solution for medical cleansing. Anyway, like others, I would recommend getting a sterile solution.

Hans
 
This thread almost reminds me of those who say molasses is better for you than refined sugar. Do they realize that molasses is the sludge that's left over after sugarcane is refined? If I ever feel like I'm not getting enough ash in my diet, I guess I can always add some molasses, eh?
 
Magnesium chloride is one of the minerals that the NIH specifies an RDA (recommended daily allowance) for. Table salt contains almost none, sea salt contains about 2%. Is that a good thing? I don't know.

Here's a link to NIH info on magnesium:
http://www.cc.nih.gov/ccc/supplements/magn.html

Here's a link to a commerical site that talks about magnesium:
http://www.mrbean.net.au/~wlast/magnesiumchloride.html

One of the things this site says is that maganesium chloride is a good antiseptic. Perhaps the basis for the notion that sea salt functions better as an antiseptic.
 
rustypouch said:
Thanks for the advice everyone.

For those who want to know, I got a labret.
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DIE.


When I see one of those, I feel like walking over the person who is wearing it and scratching furiously.
 
rustypouch said:
I got a labret.
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Had to look that one up - a stud in the lip (I think latin for lip is "labrum")

Count me out - I can't even wear a watch and it took me years to get used to my wedding ring - studs never!
 
I am not hip. (I have the test results). Also, I believe my body already has all the holes it requires and that any more might cause me to leak, sink or dribble.

But tell me, do,- Has the piercing craze passed it's peak already?
Seems like a long time since I met anyone who had just had one done.
I also note a few piercees who have stopped wearing an object in one or other piercing. At least one has expressed surprise that a hole (approx.22 calibre) in his conk does not appear to be healing up. He has an interesting whistle on the intake part of his breathing cycle and reports some loss of compression on the exhaust.
 
Table salt is mined, and then more importantly, refined to its (almost) pure form.

Sea Salt (which I will admit tastes better) is evaporated sea water. Here lies the problem. . . EVERYTHING that was in the sea water is still gonna be in the salt (that was able to dissolve and not be filtered). All the chemicals, urine, bacteria, etc. it is all still there.

No, it doesn't matter where in the ocean it came from. To the poster who said he got his imported; what is wrong with you? You're paying twice as much, but instead of getting salt from polluted american water, you are getting it from the polluted water in the Med (which is far worse, as pollution goes)?!?!

Fortunately for me, I don't care much about my health, and would rather live life. If sea salt is handy, I will use it over table salt. if it isn't, I won't spend the extra money to buy it.

btw, I live on top of a HUGE salt mine. The entire city of Detroit is over one, that is still a working salt mine.
 
Larspeart said:
Table salt is mined, and then more importantly, refined to its (almost) pure form.

Sea Salt (which I will admit tastes better) is evaporated sea water. Here lies the problem. . . EVERYTHING that was in the sea water is still gonna be in the salt (that was able to dissolve and not be filtered). All the chemicals, urine, bacteria, etc. it is all still there.
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I'm not going to make any claims to be a salt-maker, but I don't think they actually evaporate all the sea water. Rather, they reduce it past saturation, until salt-crystals forms. The salt crystals float, and are scoped off before they are rinsed and dried. The remaining sea-water is then pumped out. (This is how I believe it is done from reading an article about a salt-making company some time ago - I might be completely wrong.)


No, it doesn't matter where in the ocean it came from. To the poster who said he got his imported; what is wrong with you? You're paying twice as much, but instead of getting salt from polluted american water, you are getting it from the polluted water in the Med (which is far worse, as pollution goes)?!?!
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Different seas have different salinities and combinations of salts, so I would expect that sea-salt from the Mediteranean would tast slightly different than sea-salt from the Pacific coast.
 
Leif Roar,
Actually one of the ariticles I read, said something to the effect that while the overall salinity varies significnatly in the ocean the mix of different salts stays very close to the same thoughout the oceans.
 
davefoc said:
Leif Roar,
Actually one of the ariticles I read, said something to the effect that while the overall salinity varies significnatly in the ocean the mix of different salts stays very close to the same thoughout the oceans.
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I stand corrected, then.
 
Apart from that about combination, Leif makes an imprtant point: Sea salt is made by crystallisation, and that means something for puriy. Ideally, a crystallisation process gives a totallt clean product. Of course it is far from that in real life, but sea salt is purer than the sea itself. That said, I personally do not use sea salt because I think it is in any way better or healthier, but solely because I prefer the taste.

- And that taste does probably come from impurities, the origin of which I might be happier to be ignorant of :rolleyes: ... If you like the food, don't bother to look in the kitchen.

Hans
 
The Central Scrutinizer said:
I only purchase free range, antibiotic free, organic salt.
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Hah. Sissy. A real man would only eat the salt he'd skinned and gutted himself.
 
Where does one buy sea salt? I love a few hours from the coast, but don't plan on going that way for several weeks.
 
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