You may have heard how “sea salt” is better for you than table salt.
An image of a grain of table salt taken using a scanning electron microscope. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
That’s a half-truth, actually. There’s something else missing in most salts… Even when it’s called “sea salt”. And in fact, most “sea salts” are as bad as table salts!
Here are the details.
You see, most big brand salts you see in the store are refined. (And they taste like it too!)
What that means is —
- They have had all their minerals and moisture stripped away.
- They use sulfuric acid and chlorine to bleach the salt white.
- They’re made in a way so that they’re an impossibly high 99.7% “purity”.
They would make it 100% pure but that last .03% is for the anti-caking agents. That’s the stuff that makes table salt flow out of your saltshaker.
(Real sea salt is moist, soft and tastes like the sea).
Problem is — anti-caking agents are essentially heavy metals, which are toxic to your body. Just take a look at their names: sodium ferrocyanide, ammonium citrate and aluminum silicate.
(Did you notice the poison “cyanide” and the chemical people clean washrooms with, “ammonia”?)
Why do the big name salt makers do this? In two words: “shelf life.” In one word: “profit.”
What’s more — the FDA allows them to have as much as 2% of your table salt be anti-caking and free-flowing agents!
But that’s not all…
The worst part is — some of them have caught on to America’s “health craze” and now put the “sea salt” label on their boxes.
But it’s all just a marketing ploy. Commercial “sea salt” may come from the sea… the question is — has it been refined?
Now, you may also be wondering — what’s wrong with “99.7% purity”? Isn’t that good?
That’s something else I discovered.
When you strip salt of its minerals… and you eat it, your body doesn’t “get it”. Refined salt is essentially toxic without its trace minerals. It’s unnatural. So our bodies treat it like a foreign substance.
It doesn’t know how to use it properly.
So if our body needs salt to live… but table salt, commercial “sea salt” and even koshering salt has toxins in it… what’s left?
Simple. We go back to how salt was made 150 years ago — before it became just another chemical for industry.
We eat unrefined sea salt made the way it was meant to be.
That’s why we created AztecSeaSalt™. A hand harvested, artisanal sea salt with all the natural trace minerals you want and non of the added anti-caking agents you don’t.
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