blake murphy wrote:
>
>>> Table salt usually has iodine added, but kosher salt does not. When iodine
>>> is added, I can taste a difference on some foods, but not when used in
>>> strong flavored sauces, such as a well seasoned tomato sauce.
>> In Canada "table salt" is iodized. When my health food fanatic sister
>> in law was on her sea salt kick my niece developed a goiter.
>
> forgive me, but that made me laugh.
>
>> She needed
>> iodine. That was the reason they started adding iodine to salt in the
>> first place.
>
> forgive me, but that made me laugh.

I have to admit that it allowed me a bit of a chuckle at her self
righteous and fanatical attitude about her health foods. Here she was
thinking that her so-called health foods were so much healthier for her
and her family and her daughter ends up with a health problem that had
been remedied decades earlier by adding a little iodine to table salt,
just enough to provide a supplement of a basic mineral requirement. Add
that to her much expressed opinion that sea salt is saltier than mined
salt, apparently unaware that mined salt comes from dried up ocean
beds,which I guess she assumed was a different NaCL that the stuff in
the oceans these days.