RE: [CH] Table Salt a Residue?

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> It was written: " most table 'salt' is actually the residue of chemical
> processing."
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> Most emphatically incorrect!
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> Table salt is the result of purification by crystallization.  Some brands

> Sea salt may have traces of other minerals (probably less than a percent
> total) in it that do add complexity to its ability for flavoring, but in
> George Nelson

Sea salt also has traces of (natural) radium and uranium too, among other
nasties.  Probably negligible amounts of (natural--manmade depends on where
you get it) radioactivity but radioactive none the less.   But it seems to
me the taste is more, as you put it, complex and interesting.  And mutations
have to come from _somewhere_.

Riley

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