 | | Description: | Sea salt, obtained by evaporation of sea water, is a salt used as an ingredient in cooking and in products such as cosmetics. Its mineral content gives it a different taste from table salt, which is mostly sodium chloride that is either purified from sea salt or made from rock salt (halite), a mineral that is dug from mines. Table salt also sometimes contains additives, such as iodides (as a dietary supplement) and various anticaking agents.
Sea salt is thought by some to be a healthier alternative to table salt, since it lacks artificial chemicals used in processing. Despite the iodine content of seawater, however, sea salt, as it is typically manufactured, does not contain as much of the essential nutrient iodine as does iodized table salt. Therefore, those whose diet does not contain a large proportion of seafood (such as ocean fish and shellfish, which tend to concentrate iodine in their bodies) should use at least some iodized table salt as well as sea salt. |
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