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Depends on the salt, there are few that hardly contain more then dairy, but some salts contain enough to make it make sense. My main issue with normal salt is
by wouldbecouldbe 3y ago
Depends on the salt, there are few that hardly contain more then dairy, but some salts contain enough to make it make sense.
My main issue with normal salt is the anti-caking ingredient needed to not have it stick together, in general not needed with sea salt and a real grinder.
- EdwardDiego 3y agoYou hate sand, huh.
- morsch 3y agoThe anti caking I commonly see in salt is potassium cyanide [ferrocyanide, actually, see below]. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potassium_ferrocyanide https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potassium_ferrocyanide
- brilee 3y agoI'm sure you're aware that ferrocyanide is not the same thing as cyanide - the cyanide is bound so tightly to the iron center that it is nontoxic.
- vGPU 3y ago> However, like all ferrocyanide salt solutions, addition of an acid or exposure to UV light can result in the production of hydrogen cyanide gas, which is extremely toxic. Now that does seem like a bit of a concern, doesn’t it?
- EdwardDiego 3y agoIt's a matter of quantity, like all things toxicity.
- oynqr 3y agoThat is not potassium cyanide.
- morsch 3y agoYes, sorry, shouldn't post in a hurry. I amended my post. I'm not worried about the stuff at all, I buy salt with it all the time. But it's not sand, that's all I wanted to say.
- tekla 3y ago[flagged]
- fragmede 3y ago> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- wouldbecouldbe 3y agoMost common one used here is Sodium Ferrocyanide : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_ferrocyanide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_ferrocyanide Also used as a coating in welding among other things. And like other commentor said, a nephew of cyanide. Now Im sure most of us will be fine, but I prefer not to eat that a few times a day. If you think that makes me foolish, be my guest. It's also not needed, there are plenty of other sources of Iodine, and sea salt from the grinder is perfectly fine.
- EdwardDiego 3y agoHuh, why do they use that in the EU over silicates? (That was why I referenced sand btw). Also, not sure what the relevance to iodine is? Incidentally, iodine isn't easily sourced in some countries, due to soils that contain very little of it. My country (NZ) used to have a very real goitre problem until the introduction of iodised salt in the 1920s.
- cyberax 3y agoYou can actually consume a _lot_ of cyanide without negative consequences, your body can detoxify it easily in small quantities. You can dissolve a lethal dose of cyanide in a bottle of water, and you'll be fine if you drink it in small sips over the course of a day. Cyanide is so toxic because it has a high affinity for iron ions, so it deactivates iron-containing enzymes that are crucial for respiration. But in ferrocyanide it is _already_ combined with iron. Ferrocyanide compounds like Prussian blue are even sometimes used as an antidotes for heavy metal poisoning.
- wouldbecouldbe 3y agoYeah, just because it doesn't directly harm a human in small dosis, doesn't mean it's a good idea to just add it to the daily diet of a human. We simply don't know, and haven't research the longterm effect of small dosis on a daily intake. Especially combined with other conservatives & chemical additives in small dosis. You can't deny there are some major diseases in the modern world on a rise and we have no idea why. Yet here everyone always so sure that everything we're doing with food additives, pesticides and chemical processing is super safe. There's just no need to eat these things, just eat normal food.