A Look at Celtic Sea Salt

I have recently become familiar with a "whole" salt called Celtic Sea Salt. A good friend with his own whole health clinic gave me a heads up about what this unique salt is and why it is so superior nutritionally over what we normally see and use for salt. I had called him to get some guidance for my sons skin and adrenal condition wherein he recommended this particular salt to use on my son's food. Well, I've done some research regarding this valuable salt and now that I've found out just how exceptional it is, I won't be going back to table salt. It has some pretty good credentials.

First I should probably explain that this salt is a 'whole" salt as I mentioned above. Just as there are whole foods, there is whole salt with minerals still intact that have been preserved in it because of the fact that it has not been processed at all. Processed table salt actually goes through 8 specific steps in the processing procedure and a big part of that is stripping the mineral content it has. Just as there are good and bad sugars or flours, the same holds true for salt. There are 84 minerals in sea water at the start. During the high heating process that it undergoes 82 of them are neutralized. What a huge loss of nutrition! After learning this information it became clear to me just how much nourishment we are missing in our regular table salt.

So often people think that they are solving this problem by purchasing sea salt from their health food store. However, this is a refined salt as well and the term "sea salt" just means that it is derived from sea water. It still has been processed and stripped of its nutrition, as well as having had additives used in it to assist in aiding it to flow freely.

Celtic Sea Salt is derived from a "salt farming" technique off the Brittany Coast of France. It is allowed to naturally be sun-dried in clay ponds and then is gathered by hand with tools made from wood. It does not undergo any sort of processing so it contains all of the elements found in sea water in trace amounts, making it very absorbable to our bodies. It has nothing added to prevent caking and is unbleached as well. You'll find it has an off white sort of beige color to it.