Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Salt - The Stuff of Life

Salt or Sodium Chloride (NaCl) - an ionic compound of the metal sodium and the gas, chlorine.

Salt is the stuff of life and without it we would die. What is the first thing that happens if we are seriously injured and carried off to hospital? Well, they stick an intravenous saline drip into a vein to feed an aqueous crystalloid solution of mineral salts into the body that closely resembles the concentrations in our blood.

The structure of sea salt is obtained through natural evaporation of sea water, normally in artificial pools close to the secluded coastline. Sea salt contains 98% of sodium chloride while table salt has 99.9% clarity. The lingering 2% are probably minerals like iron, magnesium, iodine and sulfur. Table salt contains additives such as sugar, potassium iodine and anti-caking component while sea salt is pure and natural. Sea salt can also be characterized as Kosher Sea Salt, meaning it's been accepted by rabbis to make use.

The components in sea salt made it tastier as compared with table salt. Chefs prefer to use kosher salt in making the coating for French pastries and other types of Thai cooking.

Sea salt is mainly used by cosmetic businesses for skin as an exfoliant or scrub, and is used in skin care products and treatments. Sea salt crystals can be included in antiperspirants and deodorants. A lot of bath salts also include generous quantities of sea salt. Marketable processors receive additional profit through selling of eliminated trace minerals from the first groups. Companies usually incorporate sea salt sodium carbonate in chemical substances to be used in water filtration systems.

Vitamin producers can use the eradicated trace minerals to be used by humans.

Frequently, organic sea salts preserve qualities special to their origins. French salt swamps, time and again, create a grayish structure of sea salt, at the same time some interesting surroundings produce pinkish salt crystals. Several gourmet cooks can identify easily where a particular sea salt originated from. The main function is for added saltiness in dishes, but gourmet recipes require a special kind to accentuate the taste of the dish.

The Dead Sea waters and salts are popular for its therapeutic effect even before. A writer name Flavius wrote about the healing effects and benefits of the Dead Sea for human consumption. Dead Sea water is special for it holds 27% salt components unlike with normal sea water which only has 3%. Normal sea water contains approximately 80% of sodium which encompasses a smaller amount of the totality of Dead Sea water. Dead Sea Salt contains magnesium, potassium, bromides and calcium chloride.

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