RE: Answer to Himalayan Sea Salt

[Guest guest]

" I think there was a question on this list about this a

little while back. Found this little tidbit, and it

explains it quite nicely.

~JK

Pure Crystal Salt is becoming increasingly popular in

the natural foods movement.....<snipped>

While interesting, this is coming from people who obviously have a

commercial interest, and doesn't answer the point that originally

raised about the lead content being potentially harmful...

[Guest guest]

Gene-

>While interesting, this is coming from people who obviously have a

>commercial interest, and doesn't answer the point that originally

>raised about the lead content being potentially harmful...

Actually, I was talking about its possible iron content, though if

there were lead in there, that might be quite alarming.

Some of the marketing material is unfortunately kind of silly. It's

simply incorrect to talk of salt as " colloidal " , for example. A

colloid is a suspension of extremely fine solid particles in a

material or materials in another phase. It's not a solution, in

which atoms or molecules or a substance are dissolved in another

substance, and it's not a mixture in which the solid can be readily

filtered out or will rapidly settle. For minerals to be colloidal,

they have to be suspended in a material in another phase, such as

liquid water. Solid dry salt simply can't be colloidal, and when

mixed with water, salts generally dissolve rather than forming

colloidal suspensions.

Other examples of colloids include smoke (an aerosol, or solid

particles suspended in gas) and milk (a colloidal suspension of

proteins; I'm not sure offhand whether the sugar content is

technically dissolved).

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[Guest guest]

Gene-

>While interesting, this is coming from people who obviously have a

>commercial interest, and doesn't answer the point that originally

>raised about the lead content being potentially harmful...

" Actually, I was talking about its possible iron content, though if

there were lead in there, that might be quite alarming. "

Oh - typo. Wan't paying attention. Yes, I meant iron.