A term we use with someone who is everything they should be - she's the salt of the earth! Well, the salt you intake should be as well!
Sea Salt vs Kosher Salt. Am I an expert? Heavens no! But I can share what I do know and what I prefer.
Between Sea Salt and Kosher Salt, I choose Sea Salt. Unrefined Sea Salt to be exact. The refining process strips nutrients from things, which isn't good! Unrefined Sea Salt contains essential minerals that help to neutralize acid in our bodies - a very good thing! Kosher Salt is just sodium without the minerals our bodies need.
The key (as with any food) the less ingredients the better! And the less processing it has been through, the better!
So look for sea salt that isn't white (it's been bleached) and only has one ingredient: 100% Salt.
(Watch, because so many salts sneak in anti-caking agents! Sounds reasonable - who wants cakey salt? But remember, the goal should always be to eliminate additives!)
The brand I prefer and order online, is called REAL SALT.
Hope this helps!And I encourage you to research it even more. Salt - the right kind of salt - is actually very important in our diet!
Here's to your Health!
~H
(I tried to respond in a comment, but Blogger isn't allowing me to at this point, so a post it is!)
Thanks. Very informative. I do remember now that we are talking about salt that I saw pink salt at the Wal Marts the other day. I am curious about that, so next time I'm going to pick it up and read the label. Or maybe I should give Google a chance to inform me, or maybe I will just ask my friend Holly! :)
ReplyDeleteThanks! I like the "Ask Holly".... :D
ReplyDeleteActually I have been doing alot of reading/researching, but there's so much of it & so much to miss!
Now my next question is about iodine & how to get the needed amounts of it? (not that I was ever convinced that table salt provided what we needed necessarily, as we've never been huge salt users anyway.)