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Reply with necessary authority. Sea salt is actually healthier than conventional salt?

Many writers argue that home nutrition traditional salt in the body and accumulates with increasingly detrimental effect. It is said that sea salt is "organic" and therefore passes through the system, and therefore, is the best option. The laity have no way to verify these claims. For several years I lived as if this statement were true. Sea salt is what is on my kitchen shelf. Many companies in organic food production have opted to use sea salt instead of salt traditional. When shopping, only buy food in the sea salt has been used. The salt-containing conventional are bypassed. What are the facts here? Sea salt is best? Please explain. My question is not the devil's advocate. It is my hope that the final answer will be positive. For a long time I have been given much attention this matter.

What we call salt is sodium chloride (NaCl). Sea salt is obtained by evaporating seawater, and may contain traces of ions such as magnesium and potassium, in addition to sodium and chloride ions of the main components. Once housesitting for some people and had sea salt in your pantry that had a fairly long list of minerals. If I remember it was 99% sodium chloride and the remaining 1% is composed of five to ten other minerals. Table salt most of the other is obtained from the halite minerals found on earth. Usually fortified with iodine, which is necessary for proper thyroid function, and in some countries (But not in the U.S.) are not uncommon addition of fluoride for strong teeth. Potassium chloride (KCl) is a completely different entity that is sometimes used as salt substitute for people concerned about too much sodium they consume. Sea salt is potassium chloride not. Sea salt, rock salt, kosher salt and table salt are essentially chemically identical and behave the same way in the body. Sodium chloride is very soluble in water and does not fall into the body. It dissolves easily in water, saliva, gastric juice and inside our cells. The salt does not clump together and accumulate in the body. The possible negative effects on health attributed to the salt due to its content sodium, which is the same no matter where salt is because the table salt, by definition, is sodium chloride. It is theoretically possible that you may get some beneficiation of minerals found in certain sea salts, but most Americans do not have serious deficiencies in micronutrients and it is unlikely that the amounts extremely small, say, selenium, found in a particular brand of sea salt would have a serious impact on their health. Sounds like you are health conscious and watch your diet, so it probably has less to worry about the average American. Interestingly, as the sea salt is usually not fortified with iodine, is may actually be losing some extra nutrition. "Organic" in this context refers to how food is handled and processed, so one could easily make table salt organic as any other type of salt. Call me cynical, but my impression is that many organic foods producers use advertising and use of sea salt to capitalize on the assumption that their customers do sea salt is somehow more natural and therefore better salt is extracted from the rocks on the dry land. Some cooks prefer sea salt or kosher salt to table salt, but this is due to the size of grains of salt and not due to some health problems or chemical differences. Everything dissolves quickly in the mouth and stomach behaves in the same way in your body.

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