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Isn't kosher salt literally just regular salt but in a particular particle size? I also use Himalayan and kosher salt but thats because I eat a ton of junk food
by ramraj07 3y ago
Isn't kosher salt literally just regular salt but in a particular particle size? I also use Himalayan and kosher salt but thats because I eat a ton of junk food which has iodised salt. If you're health conscious and don't do that, it's probably not a bad idea to keep iodised salt and add it in times it's not that important you need to pinch the exact right amount in your fingers or whatever.
- kergonath 3y agoYou pretty much cannot have too much iodine. It is a good idea to use iodised salt in general. [edit] fair enough, I need to qualify that. You pretty much cannot get too much iodine with something that looks like a normal diet, and in any case iodised salt is not what push iodine levels over the top. And in a normal diets, iodine deficiency is much, much more likely than iodine overload.
- saturn_vk 3y agoThe article states otherwise
- manymatter 3y agoWell, the article brings up iodine overdose from popular medications at the time, but you pretty much can't get too much iodine from iodized salt without having consumed way too much salt.
- romwell 3y ago>The article states otherwise No it doesn't. You're ignoring the context. You can't have too much iodine when it's obtained from iodized salt. ...because you can't handle that much salt. From the article: 10x'ing the concentration of iodine in salt had no adverse effects. You'd have to eat salt by the pound daily to reach levels where iodine is harmful, but at that point, that'll be the least of your worries.
- tomrod 3y agoTo be fair to the interlocuters, kergonath left the salt out of his or her or their comment.
- Taniwha 3y agoI think that depends on the concentration of the iodine in the salt
- simtel20 3y agoRight, but that's a standardized fortification so any iodized salt you get anywhere in the world now would make that statement true.
- MichaelZuo 3y ago> You pretty much cannot have too much iodine. Based on what reasoning?
- op00to 3y agoIn reference to iodized salt, you would die of salt overdose before there are ill effects from iodine.
- MichaelZuo 3y agoWhat's stopping salt from having a much higher concentration of iodine than the normal advertised value? e.g. manufacturing error such that a dangerous amount of iodine is accidentally added.
- twright0 3y agoI benefit from a very robust set of regulatory controls ensuring that food products are as advertised and generally safe for me to consume?
- MichaelZuo 3y ago'generally safe' implies that some small number of folks still suffer from excess iodine due to contamination, manufacturing errors, etc... It's probably reasonable for 999 999 people to benefit in exchange for 1 person being very unlucky, but that's a different argument that needs to be made.
- adrianN 3y agoI guess the same mechanisms that stop manufactures accidentally adding poison to their product.
- MichaelZuo 3y agoWhich is nothing? There's a clearly non-zero rate of dangerous contamination in food products, in a market as large as the US, that nobody is able to fully prevent.
- kashunstva 3y ago> You pretty much cannot have too much iodine You may wish to research the Wolff-Chaikoff effect.
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