Sharron, I know you get one at TJ's. What's the name of it?

I want to try a few and possibly switch from my kosher salt to sea salt. I know it's supposed to be much better for you.

Thanks.

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Check your salt for sugar.

I read on another forum that some brands of salt have sugar in them so I went to my pantry to check my salt and sure enough listed on the ingredients of my salt was sugar.

I shopped around and found that the Walmart brand (Great Value) of iodized salt doesn't have any sugar.

If you are going to use a salt that doesn't have iodine in it make sure your daily vitamin has it, I also read this.


PennyK-
Before you throw out your iodized salt you need to talk to your doctor.

A very close friend of mine had been using sea salt for years(since the mid 70's) when she discovered a lump in her breast about 10 years ago.

She went to have it checked out and found that she had goiters. They had developed in her breasts and had to be drained. She spent the next year on an iodine therapy, and still to this day has to go in from time to time and have another lump drained that has popped up. They are occurring less and less as time goes by, but it's still not pleasant.

The doctor told us that iodine deficiency is the single most common cause of preventable mental retardation and brain damage in the world.

It also decreases child survival, causes goiters, and impairs growth and development. Iodine deficiency in pregnant women causes miscarriages, stillbirths, and other complications.

Iodine deficiency was once considered a minor problem, causing goiters. However, it is now known that the effects on the developing brain are much more deadly.

The really sad part is it can all be prevented with iodized salt.

By the way, we live on the Texas Gulf Coast and also eat plenty of seafood. It obviously wasn't enough.

I use both the Trader Joes coarse and finely ground. Their label.

I get my iodine from other sources. Table salt has aluminum in it, which is very bad for my fibromyalgia.

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I use the Hain Pure Foods sea salt. It says on the ingredient list: Salt from evaporated sea water and calcium silicate an anti caking agent. I bought it at Kroger (called Fry's out west) for $1.29

I agree with Betty. My Mom has a goider in her neck from her thyroid. She never ate salt. If you don't get enough iodine, your thyroid malfunctions. When it says on the salt that is contains iodine, it always says a Necessary nutient.
I get mine from my multi vitamin, but I give my kids iodized salt for 2 of their meals and the sea salt on their dinner. I don't know of a childrens vitamin that contains iodine.

Jen

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Thanks guys. I'm off to TJ's after work

No worries Betty. I take a daily one cap from twinlab which contains 100% DV of iodine.

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One of the "uptown" hfs around me carries sea salt in bulk and I tried that...ok, but at the "real" hfs I found (and love) Redmond Realsalt Gourmet All Natural Seasalt. It has no additives or preservatives and has not been heat processed. The ingredients list? REALSALT. Gotta love that.

btw, my multi has iodine too

I ended up buying one that is from New Zealand and is dried by the sun. It was a good price for a large container so I went with it. The grain is a bit fine though. Next time, I'm going to get the larger grain as I generally prefer a kosher salt type corseness.

Thanks for the input Sunny, I'll keep an eye out for that one as well.

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I just got the Celtic Sea Salt from King Arthur Flour, but for regular cooking I was thinking of using the Baline Sea Salt I found a a local market. It's cheaper and ground fine, like regular salt. It says it was made in the Mediterranean, so do you think it has the same high mineral content as the Celtic? It's definitely white, not gray.

Mada
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My family uses a liquid multivitamin that contains iodine.
I also use Hain Iodized Sea Salt and was wondering if it also contained inorganic aluminum?
Thanks,
Mike

Not sure where that Internet story came from, but it is not correct. While lack of iodine in the diet can cause goiter, goiter is a condition of the THYROID. It does not occur in the breasts.

Aderyn

Thank you, Aderyn.

I missed this the last time around. Anyone who has "goiters" in their breasts, has a far more serious problem than too little idodine to worry about. They've got one of the most bizarre anatomical aberrations I've ever heard of.


I use Alessi. 100% Mediterranean Sea Salt.

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I've been a bit reluctant to use mj TJ sea salt (coarse) ever since I had a sore throat last winter. I was using it as a gargle and notice a dirty sludge in the bottom of the glass after the salt had dissolved and the water had settled. I just got grossed out by the idea of eating dirt - after all, I don't think it's sterilzed during the harvest and packaging process.

So, I went back to regular salt. But I still use the sea salt in the kitchen. It makes an excellent abrasive scrubbing agent.

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Teel, my grandmother (Grandma Luisa) had a saying that, loosely translated, was "one must eat a peck of dirt before one dies."

There are various ways of processing sea salt. The ones from France, particularly, have a high component of clay. That's the grey part, and most probably the sludge in your glass. The brand I get is "washed" (but not processed the way standard table salt is) so it doesen't have as much sludge as some - which is where most of the trace minerals most likely are.

It's interesting, but my research indicates that sea salt - which I had originally would have guessed had a natural iodine content of significance - is actually not a very good source of iodine.

For those of us who like sea salt, cod and haddock are particularly rich in iodine, as are most sea weeds, like kelp.

If you're looking to an alternative source of iodine, don't count on fish like salmon, which might be farmed in mostly fresh waters. They won't bring you any significant amount of iodine.

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LOL!! I think Grandma Luisa was a wise woman (and she probably didn't have to worry much about all the pollutants that filter out of the air and over the land and sea these days).

Yes, the TJ sea salt is grey salt from France.

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A couple of good ones I've found are La Baleine and Redmond. I can get them for a good price locally so I don't have to order online.

I've tried the "wetter" Fleur de sel and didn't like it as much. It was too "clumpy" and didn't disperse well when "flicking it" over a dish.

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