What is the difference between sea salt and regular salt? Is the taste different?

Question

What do you use sea salt on?

Answer 1

You can use sea salt on anything you would use regular salt on. The only real difference is sea salt does not contain iodide. As far as taste goes theres not much difference to me.

Answer 2

I use sea salt on everything that I would use regular salt on. The brand is La Baleine. It comes in a tall blue container. as far as the taste difference, well both are salty, but the best way I can explain the difference is this, when you place a little regular salt on your tounge it melts on your tounge slowly is strong and almost burns, when you place sea salt on your tongue, it has a much more pleasant taste without the sharp bite that regular has...it kind of melts like cotton candy on your tongue. Sea salt is better for those that know the difference.

Answer 3

I use sea salt instead of table salt, it is better for you..anything organic is 100% better for you. most people don't use enough salt to notice a difference in taste...I'm sure you may notice a difference if you ate a spoonful of each. Actually, thinking about it table salt has more of a chlorine taste to me..and sea salt doesn't. Sorry, I just remembered a moment in my childhood when I did eat a lot of salt.

Answer 4

There is almost no difference. The mined salt was sea salt at one time millions of years ago.

Answer 5

Since sea salt is dissolved from sea water, it contains other salts and minerals than the sodium chloride in table salt

Its mineral content gives it a different taste from table salt, which is usually sodium chloride refined from mined rock salt (halite), or refined from sea salt. Table salt may contain anticaking agents and additives such as the dietary supplement iodides. Areas that produce specialized sea salt include the Cayman Islands, France, Ireland, Sicily and Apulia in Italy, and Maine and Cape Cod in the United States. Generally more expensive than table salt, it is commonly used in gourmet cooking and premium potato chips.

Answer 6

Sea salt comes from the sea. Regular salt is mined from the earth. Sea salt tastes saltier. You can use it on all the same things you would use regular salt on, just use less.

Answer 7

sea salt is unrefined. It has a saltier taste and carries other trace minerals since it is unrefined. I personally prefer sea salt. You don't have to use as much and it does not have that chemical taste that refined salt has.

Answer 8

Sea salt and Koshr salt are purer, with ALOT much less sodium than table salt. they're larger grains too; and that i think of they style greater ideal. So, to boot the actuality that they have got a minimum of a million/3 much less sodium in line with teaspoon/tablespoon, you even choose much less of it (so as that's even much less sodium on your eating regimen)......word although, that there is no iodine extra to sea or kosher salt.....