On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:08:49 -0700 (PDT), Will
> wrote:

>On Mar 17, 10:41 pm, Trix > wrote:
>
>> "The salt that you find in table salt and most processed foods is
>> sodium chloride. Salt in this form has been processed at high
>> temperatures, which changes the molecular structure and removes vital
>> minerals from the salt.
>
>Trix... this is not supported by the links you provided. Those links
>suggest water injection and simple brine evaporation. Your "celtic
>salt" is brine evaported. Some filtering occurs with the centrifuges
>but that's not to reduce minerals, it's to remove clay, shale and
>other non salt "natural" particulates.
>
>>Table salt also contains additives, anticaking
>> agents, and even sugar.
>
>If it does have additives it says so (by law) on the package. If it is
>kosher salt or pickling salt the packaging is very specific: "PURE
>SALT".
>
>I did read the trace "analysis". It's an utterly inappropriate use of
>numbers. The level of precision is not disclosed. But in general they
>are talking 3 to 5 decimal places of a percent. So .001% is .00001
>parts. A bucket of surface seawater vs. a sample from 200 feet varies
>by much more than this.
>
>But to get down to it...a loaf of bread gets 20 grams of salt. What
>is .0000002 units of magnesium? I get 50 times the magnesium (plus
>the other 82 micro-nutrients) in the bag of orchard apples bought with
>the money I save using kosher salt. Or even by eating a few dried
>apricots :-) Fruit minerals are bio-available...
>
>

Hi Will,

Your comments brought back a wonderful memory (as, I
believe, they have on other occasions)...

When I was about twenty (during the late Pleistocene) I was
on a ferry going from southern Spain to Morocco.

As we sat on deck with friends, one of them picked up a
bottle of water, took a drink, and then spit it out on the
deck saying "Uggh... Radon!"

He, of course, had looked at the mineral listing on the
label just prior, and enjoyed the .0000000002 ppm (or some
such) entry for radon.

All the best,
--
Kenneth

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