I can't recommend a particular brand, since I live in Southern Mexico, and buy mine raw and unlabelled, from roadside stands in communities surrounding lagoons where it is harvested. It costs me about $1US per kilo (2.2 pounds).
I am aware of the Celtic sea salt, and have read of their careful harvesting techniques, and am sure it is a good product. However, it is very pricey. Since pure sea salt is basically the same around the world (with minor variations for localized mineral content), a choice of one that is totally unprocessed should fulfill nutritional requirements. Various sea salt products, however, may contain varied pollutants, so you should choose a salt harvested in a pristine environment. (That's one of the benefits of Celtic salt, we're told.) You want to avoid mined salt, which is sometimes ancient and contains heavier amounts of local trace elements, and stay with the fresh, ocean-harvested sea salt. Mexico happens to be one of the most abundant sources of fresh sea salt in the western hemisphere because it has vast stretches of remote open oceanfront where salt can be harvested in a very pure state. Some folks swear the grey, damp salt is the best because it is fresh and unprocessed. I've tried buying commercial brands in the states, and haven't found one that I trusted as being unprocessed. Most of the info I have passed on here was gleaned from doing a google search for "sea salt" and reading all the various sources. Hope this helps... ----- Original Message ----- From: "M. G. Devour" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, August 26, 2002 4:08 AM Subject: CS>OT -- Sea salt... > > Pure sea salt is literally the best mineral/trace element nutritional > > supplement you can find. > > I don't disagree with anything you said in your post, Bill, but have a > question... > > What source do you recommend? There are brands of "sea salt", both > iodized and not (Yes, I know, avoid the iodized) that come in paper > cartons just like "table salt." They're quite inexpensive. > > Then there's the Celtic sea salt that comes in plastic bags, still > damp, in several grades of grind, and cost an arm and a leg. I'm > talking 20 USD for a pound or two at the Health Food Store! > > Just curious. > > Mike D. > > (Yes, it's off topic. If there's more than a handful of followup > posts, then we switch to [email protected]) > > [Mike Devour, Citizen, Patriot, Libertarian] > [[email protected] ] > [Speaking only for myself... ] > > > -- > The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. > > Instructions for unsubscribing may be found at: http://silverlist.org > > To post, address your message to: [email protected] > > Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html > > List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]> >
