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Food With Integrity – Salt
Food with Integrity
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Salt
All living creatures require salt to survive. We use this essential mineral to regulate the water content in our bodies, to replenish our electrolytes, and to promote optimum biological function and cellular maintenance. Unrefined salt has profound healing qualities because of its ability to balance the body’s intended mineral levels, and can nourish the adrenals, sinuses and bronchial passages, and digestive systems. However, the wrong kind of salt can lead to a multitude of health problems including high blood pressure, accelerated cellular degeneration, blood sugar abnormalities, and liver and kidney failure.
Table Salt (Refined Salt)
Although it is extremely unhealthy, refined salt is commonly used as a seasoning, pickling agent, or preservative in both home and commercial uses. Refined salt is derived from rock or ocean salt that has been mined, heat blasted, chemically treated, and mixed with iodine and anti-caking agents such as alumino-silicate  to ensure it will not clump when packaged. The high-heat processing kills the nutrients in the salt, removing 82 of the 84 minerals found in sea water and leaving only sodium and chloride. Our bodies cannot recognize and utilize sodium as it needs to in this solo form.
Unrefined Sea Salt (also known as Celtic Sea Salt)
Unrefined Sea Salt is produced from the Atlantic seawater off the coast of Brittany, France using traditional hand methods of salt-farming. This type of salt is harvested using wooden rakes and is naturally air and sun-dried in clay ponds to preserve its living enzymes. Unrefined sea salt contains at least 84 trace minerals including sodium, magnesium, potassium, and calcium, all in the correct balance. The salt retains moisture and is grey in colour. When ingested, it immediately works with the saliva in the mouth and starts the digestive process, which continues into the stomach. Unrefined sea salt has been known to lower blood pressure, decrease water retention, and improve the function of the organs.
Himalayan Crystal Salt
Himalayan Crystal Salt comes from the inside of a massive salt range in Northern Pakistan consisting of ancient sea beds. It has spent over 250 million years maturing under extreme tectonic pressure without any exposure to impurities or environmental pollutants, and is mined and washed by hand and then dried by the sun. Crystal Salt contains 84 trace minerals bound in colloidal form which makes for easy, immediate absorption into the body. Because of this, many believe that Himalayan Crystal Salt has similar positive effects on our bodies as Unrefined Sea Salt.
Nature’s Fare carries a selection of Unrefined Sea Salt and Himalayan Crystal Salt. We do not carry refined table salt and do our best to ensure products we stock do not contain refined table salt. The Apple Organic Bistro uses only unrefined sea salt.
2 Comments »
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Greta
Dear Friends at Natures Fare,
I would like to know if Liquid Lecithin – 34210 packed by Annie’s Natural Foods is an Organic product. Is there any chance that it is from a GMO source? 500 ml bar code #710095 01553. Thank you for a reply.Feb 21,2012 @ 6:49 am -
Chantelle
Hello, unfortunately the liquid lecithin is not organic therefor cannot be certified as a non GMO source. We do offer 2 non GMO granule products and are looking for a certified organic source liquid source.
Thank you.
Feb 22,2012 @ 12:16 pm
