Best type of salt

onway

I don't use alot of salt but was wondering what is the best type to have in cupboard.....Lo-salt.....Sea-salt....etc ??

Khannie

I think it depends on a lot of things. I think less processed is better, but if you have high blood pressure then too much sodium isn't great as I recall. So how's your blood pressure? Do you exercise a lot?

I deliberately add lo-salt and normal salt to replace all the salts I'd sweat out.

cormie

I think Himalayan Rose Pink Crystal Salt is said to be the best. Have heard it from a good few sources. I've got this stuff here: http://www.windmillorganics.com/product-362.html

teacosy

onway wrote: »

I don't use alot of salt but was wondering what is the best type to have in cupboard.....Lo-salt.....Sea-salt....etc ??

If you don't use a lot then that's the main thing. It doesn't matter where the salt comes from or how it looks. Chemically (and physiologically) salt is salt.

onway

Blood pressure is fine .As for exercise - only walking, about 40mins 4/5 days per wk so nothing too sweaty!!!!

Red Cortina

Thought I read somewhere (can't find article at mo tho!) that it was important that salt still had a colour, that when it was so processed that the colour had been removed it meant that all the good minerals had been processed out of it

teacosy

Red Cortina wrote: »

Thought I read somewhere (can't find article at mo tho!) that it was important that salt still had a colour, that when it was so processed that the colour had been removed it meant that all the good minerals had been processed out of it

Salt is Sodium and Chloride. Just 2 minerals. Nothing more and nothing less.

enda1

teacosy wrote: »

Salt is Sodium and Chloride. Just 2 minerals. Nothing more and nothing less.

Actually just one mineral.

But "salt" can consist of many minerals depending on where it is derived from.
If sea salt for example, it will contain many different salts, not just NaCl. But predominantly sea salt all right, like 99% or above I believe (for Maldon sea salt).

Doubt there's a whole lotta nutritional value in salt other than the 4-6g NaCl recommended in the diet per day. I doubt the other minerals really register at all.

tHE vAGGABOND

There is [far too much] salt in basically everything you buy these days so I just plain dont use salt anymore.

I have a thing of nice sea salt in the press for cooking, but I would say I have used it twice in the 3+ months I have been on diet.

I use cracked pepper a fair bit, for flavour and taste to things, and Im sure thats not a wild amount better, but I have to indulge myself somehow

ciagr297

just checked a packet of Lo-Salt in the canteen at lunch
its 51% Potassium Chloride and 48% Salt

i'm sticking with sea salt

enda1

ciagr297 wrote: »

just checked a packet of Lo-Salt in the canteen at lunch
its 51% Potassium Chloride and 48% Salt

i'm sticking with sea salt

Well what did you think was in it to make it lo(w)?

They have to replace the "salt" with something.

ciagr297

enda1 wrote: »

Well what did you think was in it to make it lo(w)?

They have to replace the "salt" with something.

well aware of that, just a point of information as the thread topic was salt

worded

I think sea salt has very little flavour compared to Saxa old style salt.

rubadub

teacosy wrote: »

Salt is Sodium and Chloride. Just 2 minerals. Nothing more and nothing less.

Sodium Chloride is just one type of salt.

enda1 wrote: »

Well what did you think was in it to make it lo(w)?

They have to replace the "salt" with something.

It is still a tub of salt, a mixture of 2 salts, potassium chloride and sodium chloride, if you get rehydration remedies like dioralyte or isotonic hydrating drinks usually have a mixture of these salts & others. MSG is also a salt.

Dioralyte sachets contain rehydration salts consisting of sugars and salts (glucose, sodium chloride, potassium chloride and disodium hydrogen citrate)

the last one is just another type of salt too.

Some people make their own isotonic drinks using lolo salt.

enda1

rubadub wrote: »

Sodium Chloride is just one type of salt.

It is still a tub of salt, a mixture of 2 salts, potassium chloride and sodium chloride, if you get rehydration remedies like dioralyte or isotonic hydrating drinks usually have a mixture of these salts & others. MSG is also a salt.

the last one is just another type of salt too.

Some people make their own isotonic drinks using lolo salt.

I know they're both chemically salts but one is salt in the cooking sense and the other not.

ordinary_girl

I actually love Lo-Salt (I have the Tesco brand one), I can't stand normal table salt, doesn't taste as nice.