Lately I’d been sorting out our medicine / herbal / supplement stash and I came across something we haven’t opened or used… it was my teacher Barefoot Herbalist MH’s “Iodine / Potassium / Minerals” which contained Tree Iodine / Potassium extract, olive leaf, comfrey root, oak bark, horsetail grass, peppermint, lobella herb, cloves, oatstraw, glyceria, honey, maple syrup, sorghum molasses, oregano oil and tinctures… whew, that’s a lot.
Been thinking about the growth of my children lately. Maybe we are iodine deficient? And I do not believe for one bit that the global government mandate of spiking all salt supplies with iodine has any impact or is good at all. Thus I turned my attention to the salt being put in our everyday cooking.
The salt we had been using is from Ilocos and it is usually un-contaminated sea salt. Un-contaminated by chemical iodine.
Maybe I can find better salt than sea salt. Himalayan salt is widely sold in health food stores so I bought some for us months ago, just to try, but paid no mind much to it nor order our maids to exclusively use himalayan salt.
Lately I did some research and one company claims that himalayan salt contained a lot of iodine! Really? Naturally occurring meaning more biologically available? Beneficial?
So I asked the raw paleo diet community their experience with Himalayan Salt and some of them like it, some of them do not. And some suggested I try Redmond Real Salt.
Himalayan Salt comes from salt mines in Pakistan. Redmond Real Salt comes from salt mines in Utah, USA. They are different salt mines in different parts of the world, so I’m sure they have different nutritional profiles.
Why choose one or the other? Just buy both! And I did ask my wife yesterday to buy from both Himalayan Salt and Redmond Real Salt. The Himalayan salt she got was in big crystals, the Redmond Real Salt was finely ground in a convenient salt shaker.
The Himalayan salt tasted the same as the other himalayan salt brands I got earlier. The Redmond Real Salt as expected tasted different. Which tastes better? I can’t say, they are different. And they should be both in the middle of the table in the lazy susan for any family member who wants to add salt to their food.
I’m thinking cook the food blander… less salt… then have each family member add salt on his food… that way the salt remains raw, uncooked and is probably more beneficial. Probably.
Let’s see what improvements in our lives these expensive mined salts will bring.
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