Article: SUPERMARKET SAMPLER: Little girl with the umbrella sells sea salt from down by the seashore

Morton Sea Salt. Fine, and Coarse. $2.08 to $2.30 per 17.6-ounce carton. Bonnie: I'm glad Morton is making sea salt available at a reasonable price. Sea salt has a different flavor from table salt -- it's less salty and it also takes on the flavor of where it was harvested from, just as wines do ("terroir," in winespeak). These new sea salts are from the coast of Spain.

Be aware that these salts do not contain the iodine that's routinely added to table salt. Iodine is a necessary nutrient that protects against goiter (an enlarged thyroid gland) and mental retardation (babies born to women with iodine deficiency can develop cretinism, a form of mental retardation, and other abnormalities). ...

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