Recently, netizens spent 169 yuan to buy a 425-gram bottle of American Hawaiian black salt online, which is unbelievable. The price of a 400 gram bag of edible refined salt is only about 3 yuan. That black salt is more than 50 times more expensive than table salt by around 3 yuan. It’s salt too, so why is there so much difference?
Seeing that I was skeptical, netizens began to “popularize” me: “Hawaiian red volcanic salt is mixed with red volcanic mud, which is rich in minerals, has a crunchy texture and mild flavor.” “The French gray salt comes from the Celtic Mare in France., With a high water content, moist and brittle and rich in minerals.” He talked incessantly over there, and at first I felt the clouds and the haze, and I felt there was some truth, so I kindly thought they were full of exotic flavors. Table salt can have unique nutrients.
But upon careful consideration, the “Internet celebrity salt” generally focuses on “natural, mineral-rich” origin, which is purely conceptual speculation. Edible salt mainly includes sea salt, lake salt, well salt, mineral salt, etc., which come from sea water, natural brine, and underground salt deposits. It can be said that all table salt is “natural”. The main ingredient of edible salt is sodium chloride.As long as the purity meets the standard, the nutritional composition and value of the salt from different origins are similar.
More minerals in the “net celebrity salt” are no better, if sodium, phosphorus and other elements accumulate too much in the human body, they will cause harm. Also, eating salt to supplement nutrients goes against the low-salt diet direction advocated by relevant departments. In 2012, when the former Ministry of Health revised the “Rules for the use of food nutritional fortifying”, the functional expression of salt as a food nutrient fortifying vector was specifically eliminated and the addition of nutritional fortifying other than iodine it was no longer allowed. Studies have also shown that high salt intake is closely related to hypertension, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease, and controlling salt intake is one of the important measures to prevent chronic diseases such as hypertension recommended by the World Organization. of Healthcare and governments around the world.
The statement “eat salt to supplement calcium” is even more unscientific and contradictory. Table salt contains sodium ions and the metabolism of sodium and calcium in the human body is linked and regulated by the same molecule. When sodium intake is too high, the body will work hard to excrete sodium and, at the same time, increase the excretion of calcium in the urine.
The “Internet celebrity salt” misleads consumers, not only makes consumers spend more money, but can also harm their health and affect national health. The author here reminds everyone not to be fooled by the “salt of celebrities online”.
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(Director in charge: Deng Hao)
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