SALT - are you scared of it?

Yes sea salt is sodium chloride, but "salt" from the store usually isn't .

Stop making things up.

Go read a book and stop reading magazines.

The author lost me with the crap about table salt being "toxic." It's not. It may or may not be better than salt which has other minerals in it, but it's not toxic unless you go crazy with it.

Yes sea salt is sodium chloride, but "salt" from the store usually isn't .

Stop making things up.

Go read a book and stop reading magazines.

Read a label.

Name a single brand of salt that doesn''t contain NaCl

Most brands go through a chemical process. As we discussed, iodine, or bleaching. It's sold as "salt" Salt has a broad definition. but in terms of "table salt" it's "NaCl" "Sodium chloride" if you add other stuff such as iodine, or bleaching, it's no longer called a "Sodium chloride" it's called a "Mixture(solution)"

es sea salt is sodium chloride, but "salt" from the store usually isn't

sea salt has other trace minerals that "table salt" doesn't have.

Fighting with a chemist about chemicals and minerals is like going 10 rounds with Mohammed Ali...you might get in a couple jabs, but in the end you will be KO.

Er... not that I'm fighting with him particularly... but uh... chemists are chemists. Unless they are biochemists, they probably don't have more than a couple of biology classes at best.

Which sounds like I'm slamming Pu. I'm not. I usually like what he has to say and I often (but not always) agree with him. At any rate, I respect his knowledge and his journey toward a degree.

Your statement just rubbed me wrong and, well, I know a fair bit of chemistry myself, seeing as I'm a pharmacologist.

I admit, I was surprised to find something other than sodium chloride and potassium iodide in my table salt... but the other things? Sodium silicoaluminate... either it co-precipitated with the sodium chloride (likely), or it was deliberately added as a source of trace minerals. The potassium Iodide? You need iodine for proper thyroid function- it's used to make thyroid hormone. The dextrose? Probably in there to keep the salt from becoming one giant crystal when it gets wet. Sodium Bicarbonate? Again, probably co-precipitated with the sodium chloride, but not at all toxic. We have plenty of sodium bicarb in our blood... in fact, it's our major buffering system.

Point is... there is not a single ingredient in my table salt that is harmful to humans. Aluminum and Silica can be if consumed in large quantities... but we need trace amounts of the minerals.

Sorry you felt lumped in with that...was referring to RonSwanson telling PU to stop making things up and other rude comments

i have found nothing degrading or offensive in what you said. You just said what was in your salt. So no worries in that sense. Yeah Sodium Bicarbonate can be a byproduct. With iodine, that can be a big possibility. Yes Sodium Bicarbonate is used to maintain the pH balance of our blood. I don't get the dextrose though. If you're saying dextrose is a binding agent. Possible. When salt is put in water(wet) it would break up in to its ions. Na+, Cl- as you probably know, but this goes to solubility.

Adequate iodine is needed for the normal metabolism of cells, making it an essential component of diet if you are trying to lose weight or are an athlete

The thing is that once you start saying "table salt isn't sodium chloride; it's a mixture" because they added minute amounts of iodine, you can do that with pretty much anything. This butter isn't really butter because it's salted butter. This apple juice isn't apple juice because it's got added vitamin C as a preservative. Nothing we eat is a 100% pure chemical compound with no impurities or additions but to be honest, table salt is probably closer to being a pure compound than anything else we eat. It's also closer to being pure sodium chloride than sea salt is.