Sea Salt or Table? Surprisingly, Table Wins
I've always wondered about this. What's better, sea or table salt? Sea salt always seemed very exotic to me, bringing up images of seaweed waving under the water and large white crystals, bigger than regular table salt. When recipes called for it, I always considered them the gourmet ones. Now a shocking new study has found that "trendy sea salt may be natural but it is not healthy," according to newswise.com. "Typically people opt for natural vs. processed to avoid preservatives such as sodium, but in this case, all salt is sodium,” the Web site quotes Ashley Barrient, clinical dietitian, Loyola Center for Metabolic Surgery & Bariatric Care. “Sea salt and table salt have an equivalent sodium content despite sea salt being deemed less processed than table salt due to the way it is produced.” We've all been deluged with warnings for years about the dangers of salt. But Barrient says many healthy adults may think monitoring or lowering salt c...