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According to [0]: actinium, aluminum, antimony, arsenic, astatine, barium, beryllium, bismuth, boron, bromine, cadmium, calcium, carbon, cerium, cesium, chlorin
by mitchtbaum 9y ago
According to [0]: actinium, aluminum, antimony, arsenic, astatine, barium, beryllium, bismuth, boron, bromine, cadmium, calcium, carbon, cerium, cesium, chlorine, chromium, cobalt, copper, dysprosium, erbium, europium, fluorine, francium, gadolinium, gallium, germanium, gold, hafnium, holmium, hydrogen, indium, ##iodine##, iridium, iron, lanthanum, lead, lithium, lutetium, magnesium, manganese, mercury, molybdenum, neodymium, neptunium, nickel, niobium, nitrogen, osmium, oxygen, palladium, phosphorus, platinum, plutonium, polonium, potassium, praseodymium, protactinium, radium, rhenium, rhodium, rubidium, ruthenium, samarium, scandium, selenium, silicon, silver, sodium, strontium, sulfur, tantalum, tellurium, terbium, thallium, thorium, thulium, tin, titanium, uranium, vanadium, wolfram, yttrium, ytterbium, zinc and zirconium.
Whereas, according to [1], iodized salt has these "chemicals used to keep the salt from absorbing water and caking", which dilute the mineral content per gram: magnesium carbonate, calcium silicate, calcium phosphate, magnesium silicate, and calcium carbonate.
0: https://www.livestrong.com/article/534033-what-are-the-84-minerals-in-himalayan-salt/ https://www.livestrong.com/article/534033-what-are-the-84-mi...
1: http://www.madehow.com/Volume-2/Salt.html http://www.madehow.com/Volume-2/Salt.html
- ceejayoz 9y agoSo what's the Recommended Daily Allowance for the important nutrient thallium? Or polonium? Half the stuff you've listed are toxins, not nutrients.
- Turing_Machine 9y agoPlutonium? Seriously? Total crap.
- yipopov 9y agoOh no, a nanogram reduction of dietary silicon is going to leave me crippled with malnutrition! Whatever will I do?
- nabla9 9y agoMost of those things are not micronutrients humans need. Farmed salt of today is contaminated with anything that is in the sea, including microplastics. If you don't want "chemicals" and want "natural" avoid farmed salt.
- mitchtbaum 9y agoThat's a really good point. I'm definitely in favor of processing, just picky about the end results. Removing microplastics sounds like a great process. Improvements like this to salt farming could have huge benefits.
- ch4s3 9y ago> Removing microplastics How do you propose to remove grains of plastic the size of salt crystals from the salt? And once done is it affordable or commercially viable?
- mitchtbaum 9y agoValidation of density separation for the rapid recovery of microplastics from sediment ? http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2017/ay/c6ay02542k/unauth#!divAbstract http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2017/ay/c6ay02...
- mitchtbaum 9y agoAlso: The presence of microplastics in commercial salts from different countries (nature.com) 253 days ago 223 points 56 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14073368 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14073368
- ch4s3 9y agoas the discussion on the article mentions particles > 1mm are still pretty large.
- nkrisc 9y agoSomeone can correct me but I'm going to guess you'd just piss most of that out.
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- saalweachter 9y agoThe causality actually goes the other way. The Morton Salt Company revolutionized salt by adding minute amounts of clay to prevent caking, which is one of the advantages that allowed them to achieve a near monopoly in salt production at the time iodine deficiency became understood. That meant that iodizing Morton's salt was basically iodizing all the salt. However, the iodine is independent of the anti-caking additives. You can have iodized salt which still cakes up when it is humid, but why would you want to?
- yongjik 9y agoPeople will absolutely flip shit if this exact same list was titled "84 chemicals you will find in your tap water". I'm still not sure if the article is a brilliant parody.
- mark-r 9y agoSpeaking of bad stuff in your tap water: http://www.dhmo.org/ http://www.dhmo.org/
- s0rce 9y agoYou need to take some introductory chemistry and human nutrition classes.
- rabidvermin 9y agoI'll say! If anyone thinks himalayan salt is a source of valuable nutrients like mercury, lead and (radioactive) plutonium, they lack basic scientific literacy.
- rabidvermin 9y agowolfram is an element now? Maybe get your health info from somewhere a little more reliable.
- grzm 9y agoWolfram is an alternate name for tungsten, and the reason tungsten's chemical symbol is W. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tungsten https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tungsten
- yorwba 9y agoYou do realize that ``these "chemicals used to keep the salt from absorbing water and caking", which dilute the mineral content`` are most likely contained in Himalayan salt? All their elements appear in the list. On top of that, not even your [0] claims that most of those elements are necessary nutrients for humans.
- saalweachter 9y agoAlso, nitpick, those are elements, not minerals. I mean, some elements can also be minerals (eg, gold) but you show me a list of the elements I'm going to tell you they're elements, not minerals. In fact, they're basically all the elements - they're short most of the transuranics (except for Neptunium and Plutonium), as well as all of the Noble gasses. If Himalayan sea salt actually contains detectable quantities of basically all the elements naturally occurring in all creation, that's goddamn fascinating (although I'd probably say "bullshit" just on that point), but I'm not sure why it makes the salt good to eat.
- Kluny 9y agoIs there some sort of advantage to consuming aluminum, cadmium and neptunium? One causes Alzheimer's, one is a battery, and the third is radioactive.
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