Herbs and Spices Perth Australia

Salt - Table (Lake Salt) 3kg

Salt is sodium plus Chloride. Both are minerals. Salt is made up of 40% sodium and 60% Chloride.
Code: SALT3
Quantity: Good Supply
Availability: Always Available
$ 4.75
GST exempt
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  Salt Table (Lake Salt )
Salt Table (Lake Salt)

Usage

Table salt is used extensively in cooking as a flavour enhancer and to cure a wide variety of foods such as bacon and fish.

This salt is 1mm (maximum) particle size. It has a flowing agent, Silicon Dioxide.

Medicinal Powers?

Culpepers recommend that individuals consume no more than 1500-2300 mg of sodium (3750-5750 mg of salt) per day.

Fun Facts

  • The word "Salary" comes from the Latin word "salarium" or money paid the Roman Army soldiers for the purchase of Salt.

  • In 1930 Mahatma Gandhi lead approximately 100,000 Indian people to the Indian Ocean to "make Salt" in protest to the British control of the product and of the Indian people.

  • Salt plums are not popular, but they used to be. 

  • Every cell in the body contains salt, an adult contains about 250 grams of it.

  • Salt is actually considered a rock; indeed Sodium Chloride is formed when the unstable metal Sodium reacts with Chlorine gas. It is also the only family of rocks regularly eaten by humans!

Country of Origin!

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