z z wrote:
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> End of one of the aisles had something I have never seen before. Brand
> was something like Stonebeam or Stonebridge. Canned meat. Large cans-I
> am assuming 16oz. $5 a can. Low sodium which greatly surprised me. Beef,
> Chicken, Pork. The beef can ingredients only listed Beef and Sea Salt.
> Does Sea Salt not contain sodium?

Many canned products that advertise "low sodium" still contain quite a bit
of it.

As for sea salt, yes it does contain sodium but it also contains many other
chemicals (depending on where it is made from). Contains many dead plankton,
fish poop, etc too. Sea salt is the new cool "all natural" salt thing but
you really need to know where it's made.

I would not dare buy sea salt if it was made from ocean water where I live.
I live right where the toilet of Chesapeake Bay flushes out into the ocean
twice a day at outgoing tides. And I've read that most sea salt is made
from Mediterranean waters. With all the people living near there, I wouldn't
trust that sea salt either.

My thoughts are that mined salt is probably the purest to eat. Mined salt is
from ancient oceans and bays that dried up long ago and very little human
contamination left in there.

If I wanted to buy sea salt today, I would go for some made from the very
south atlantic ocean close to Antarctica....that should be the purest ocean
water that we have these days.

G.

G.