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Iodine is in a lot of foods.

• naasking 3y ago
  If it were common enough in available foods then they wouldn't have added it to table salt.
  • hilux 3y ago
    IIRC this was added long ago, when Americans ate less meat, dairy, and seafood and were more prone to malnutrition.
    • naasking 3y ago
      And 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