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Article: Sea salt: tastier maybe, but not more nutritious.(Ask EN)
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- Environmental Nutrition
- Article date:
- December 1, 2006
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Q. Is sea salt better than regular salt?
A. It's not more nutritious, but when you add it to your food at the table, it adds more texture and flavor than regular salt, which means you may end up using less salt--a good thing.
Sea salt is harvested from the evaporation of seawater; some say it has a subtle flavor that's fresher and cleaner than table salt. But when you shake it out, it's still about 97% sodium chloride--plain table salt. The remaining 3% or so comes from trace amounts of minerals like iron, magnesium, calcium, potassium, manganese, zinc and iodine, which are all found in seawater. The minerals may account for the difference in taste, but ...