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Avoiding table salt thoroughly could potentially lead to iodine deficiency. It was somewhat common in the past so most table salt over the past century has had
by naasking 3y ago
Avoiding table salt thoroughly could potentially lead to iodine deficiency. It was somewhat common in the past so most table salt over the past century has had iodine added to it to avoid this, but it's cropping back up a bit as people avoid salt or prefer to use "natural rock salts" common in fine cuisine, which are not reinforced with iodine.
- hilux 3y agoIodine is in a lot of foods.
- naasking 3y agoIf it were common enough in available foods then they wouldn't have added it to table salt.
- hilux 3y agoIIRC this was added long ago, when Americans ate less meat, dairy, and seafood and were more prone to malnutrition.
- naasking 3y agoAnd yet, levels have been measurably going down, and Europeans are already fairly deficient since they don't have as many iodine supplementation programs: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9459956/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9459956/ https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/iodine.htm https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/iodine.htm