Home»Himalayan Salt»How Is Refined Salt Different?
How Is Refined Or Processed Salt Different?
Unfortunately, to the detriment of our health, much of the apparently 'natural' salt we see on the shelves nowadays is actually refined salt.
The oceans are being used as dumping grounds for harmful, toxic poisons like mercury, PCBs, dioxin, raw sewage and numerous other industrial and commercial wastes. Reports of oil spills polluting the sea are becoming more frequent. With some 89% of all sea salt producers now refining their salt, today's sea salt simply isn't as healthy as it used to be.
The sea salt you once thought was pure and natural may well have been considerably adulterated by processes including;
1. Mechanical harvesting from dirt or concrete components and piped through metallic pipes.
2. Exposure to very high temperatures, which cracks the crystalline structure.
3. Refined so much it loses many of its essential minerals.
4. Adulterated by chemical additives used to make it flow freely, bleached to a white colour, and iodized to unnaturally high levels.
Your table salt is actually 97.5% sodium chloride and 2.5% other chemicals such as moisture absorbents, iodine, fluoride and a cocktail of other poisonous
substances.
Refined table salt is an unnatural, isolated substance and it can cause many illnesses.
Healthy, vital life is not possible without a proper balance of minerals and trace elements. Unfortunately, our common table salt contains only a meagre 2 elements (sodium and chloride) from the original 84 elements found in crystal salt. It lacks many crucial, life supporting nutrients that our bodies require for proper functioning. When crystal salt is refined, it is heated to 1200 degrees Fahrenheit! This heat processing kills the salt; removing 82 of the 84 elements found within its structure (reducing it to sodium chloride). The intent is not purification, but extraction of elements to sell separately for greater profit.
Over 2000 chemicals are based on the salt extraction process, and the resulting sodium chloride is sold to various industries.
To understand the reasoning behind this process we simply have to look at the financial side of the salt business. The primary use of salt is not as a food additive, but for industrial purposes. A huge 93% of manufactured salt is used outside the food industry. Our common table salt is little more than industrial waste.
After being refined and stripped of its natural goodness it has various chemical compounds added to it, even though scientific research has shown the side effects of many of these additives to be detrimental.
Refined Salt