Just wondering.
2006-10-21 12:55:24 · 11 answers · asked by Girly♥ 7 in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
Sea-salt comes from the ocean, regular salt comes from salt-mines.
2006-10-21 12:59:54 · answer #1 · answered by JubJub 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The cooking salt, widely known as common salt consisting of 1 part of Sodium (Na) and 1 part of Chloride(Cl); thus making the chemical formula NaCl. Although you could artificially make salt, but the cooking salt comes from sea water. Depending on the company making it, some harvest sea water and extract salt by sun drying the water in salt lakes. The concentrated white residue is then taken to salt factories where they are refined and sealed. Free flow salts undergo a special process of granulisation and adding anti-caking agents like baking soda. This prevents the affect of moisture and prevents causing lumps in salt.
If you are using low sodium salt for cooking, especially if a doc tells you to use if you are a patient of high blood pressure. These salts contains more of Potassium (K) then sodium. KCl is the formula for it.
2006-10-21 13:09:56 · answer #2 · answered by cybernik 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Some of the salt we eat may come from the ocean-- but not all of it-- because we have salt mines in Arizona-- which they dig the salt, and clean it for table use.
2006-10-21 13:14:14 · answer #3 · answered by geri_stubbs 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Some does and it will be labeled as sea salt or bay salt.
most of what ends up on the table is mined from underground and processed for purity.
See this site for an explantion of how salt is brought to market.
http://indorgs.virginia.edu/iccidd/iodman/iodman5.htm
Also
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_salt
2006-10-21 13:11:17 · answer #4 · answered by mindbender - seeker of truth 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Depends. Some companies use sea salt, where others use salt lakes.
2006-10-21 13:02:44 · answer #5 · answered by Greek_Warrior 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
technically salt is salt but
there are three kinds sold. mined and then refined salt.
the other is called sea salt as it comes from sea water.
some cooks swear by sea salt for cooking
the last is rock salt, unrefined mine salt
2006-10-21 13:05:13 · answer #6 · answered by my_iq_135 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Not unless its marked "sea salt" . Salt is usually mined from underground deposits.
2006-10-21 13:04:38 · answer #7 · answered by likeitis 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No.
It's a very processed form of rock salt.
Salt in salt-water is not edible.
2006-10-21 13:01:16 · answer #8 · answered by CrazyChick 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It comes from Walmart Supercenter.
2006-10-21 13:02:57 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
no they mine it from under the ground
2006-10-21 13:02:40 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋