There are many kinds of salt, Including
• Himalayan pink salt, an amazing and beautiful unrefined salt with ~80 trace minerals that will heal you from the inside out.
• Many kinds and colors of sea salt (from many areas of the world) including Celtic Sea salt. Natural sea salt does not have iodine. Using Celtic Sea salt in your recipes not only adds a unique flair to a dish but can also provide a number of surprising health benefits. It can help heal skin damage, promote healthy cell growth, and relieve joint pain
• Kosher salt. True Kosher salt is blessed by a rabbi, but there is more in the koshering process. The craggy crystals of Kosher salt make it perfect for curing meat. Kosher salt is a chef favorite because it dissolves quickly and disperses flavors evenly.
Celtic Sea Salt vs. Himalayan Salt
Celtic sea salt is harvested by evaporating seawater. It is often darker because it contains trace minerals.
Himalayan salt is a light shade of pink, caused by large amounts of iron oxide in the deposits.
While Himalayan salt contains more potassium, Celtic Sea salt has less sodium, and more calcium and magnesium.
Himalayan salt is usually more finely ground, while Celtic Sea salt is often kept in larger grains, in order to retain flavor and cut down on moisture release.
My favorite is Celtic Sea Salt
Sea salt can also be darker and tinted gray, instead of the usual white or pink that is found in other salts. This is because of the high mineral content that is retained in the salt as it is evaporated. Sea salt is prized therefore as a good source of not only iodine, but lots of trace essential minerals, including magnesium, iron, manganese, zinc, iodine, and potassium.
Salt Use #1: Food preservation. Aside from your body’s need for salt, the most important reason to store salt is for food preservation. Salt helps to preserve food by drawing out water out of the cells and by inhibiting the growth of bacteria and other organisms.
If the power goes out or some other emergency, you’ll need salt to:
• Preserve the meat in your freezer when the electricity goes off for days or weeks
• Cure salmon into gravlox or make beef jerky
• Make Sauerkraut and kimchi
• Pickle vegetables and fruits which increases probiotics and extends shelf life when your garden has a lot of produce, you’re ready to scrub the pan vigorously with an old dish rag
• Lacto-ferment pickles Choose a salt with no added iodine in it because iodine oxidizes and darkens food.
• Make fermented, delicious, medicinal beet kvass to stabilize the gut’s microbiome for optimum health
• Prevent fruits and vegetables from browning
Use #2: Electrolyte balance.
Salt is important for your body in terms of water retention and electrolyte balance. Electrolyte salts are in your blood, urine and body fluids, and it’s the electrolytes that help with muscle contraction. Salt also has minerals vital to digestion.
• Electrolyte balance is important to restore electrolytes lost through sweating. Proper electrolyte balance and hydration can keep you from getting heat stroke!
Just regularly put a pinch of pink Himalayan salt in a glass of water and consume.
• Electrolytes help promote quicker recovery during illness. Most commercial electrolyte drinks are packed full of sugar and artificial ingredients.
And this very basic anti-diarrheal electrolyte recipe
1. 1/2 level teaspoon of Himalayan Sea salt
2. 3/4 teaspoon baking soda (sodium bicarbonate)
3. dissolved in 4 measuring cups of purified water
Use #3: Important medicinal uses. Humans need salt to live!
• Dental treatment: Lukewarm salt water can help draw out the pus form an abscess and simultaneously kill bacteria, which is at the root of the problem. If you had no toothpaste, you could brush your teeth with a mixture of baking soda and salt.
• Diluted, salt works as a mild antiseptic and antibacterial. Get a cut? Wash it with salty water and let it dry naturally. The salt helps clean and dry up/resolve your wound.
• Salt and a drop of water can help relieve bee stings
• Sea salt or Epsom Salts can be used in a sitz bath to cleanse or ease pain around your bottom or private parts.
• Gargle to soothe sore throats.
Use #4: Quickly put out a fire. A fire extinguisher salt is invaluable with grease fires. Water will only make a grease fire worse, but spreading enough salt on a grease fire can effectively help you smother the flames with no smoke.
Use #5: Disinfectant for cutting boards. Salt is a natural cleaning agent and abrasive. Rub cutting boards with salt and a damp cloth after washing them in mild soap and water.
Use #6: Clean and removing rust from cast iron pans. Salt is one way to clean your cast iron cookware.
Use #7: Easier peeling hard-boiled eggs. Did you know boiled eggs will peel more easily when boiled in salt water?
Use #8: Boil water faster. Watching a pot of water won’t make it boil faster, but you can add a pinch of salt to it! And reduced cooking time saves valuable fuel. Adding salt to pasta also will help reduce the gelatin starch in the pasta.
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