A pinch of salt makes our food taste just better. It enhances flavour and helps preserve food (especially pickles!) for a long. In our daily life, salt can be used as a cleaning agent, courtesy the exfoliating properties in it.
However, since food adulteration is making the headlines these days, how could salt – especially white refined salt – be excluded from this debate? For years, the discourse around white refined salt has been controversial. Several experts have considered it to be less healthy in comparison to rock salt (sendha namak). But the question here lies - how much of it is true and why? If you are wondering the same, then dear reader, you are just at the right place.
Also Read: How Table Salt Differs From Black Salt? From Taste To Uses And Benefits Renowned nutritionist Amita Gadre (@amitagadre) shared a reel on her Instagram handle busting the myths around refined white salt while comparing it with rock salt (sendha namak). A post shared by Amita Gadre | Nutritionist (@amitagadre) Comparing white salt to rock salt (sendha namak), nutritionist Amita Gadre shares that both the types of salts come from natural sources, but are packaged in factories. White salt - which is derived from fresh seawater - is purified to remove pollutants, and fortified with iodine (to prevent goitre and hypothyroidism).
So, it does not make it unhealthy. The salt that gets packaged in the factories is mixed with some anticaking agents to prevent it from clumping up together. Nutri.
