Ingredient · Other

Sea Salt

Salt harvested by evaporating seawater. Chemically almost identical to mined table salt — the trace minerals that survive evaporation are present in quantities too small to matter nutritionally. The relevant number is the total sodium on the panel.

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also known as Sodium chloride

Sea salt and mined table salt are both sodium chloride. The trace minerals left behind by evaporation are real but present in amounts too small to change anything nutritionally — you would need a medically inadvisable quantity of salt to get a meaningful dose of magnesium from it.

What does differ is crystal size, which changes how salty a product tastes at the same sodium content: coarse flakes hit the tongue directly and can let a formulator use less. The number that matters is the sodium figure on the nutrition panel, not the word in front of "salt" on the ingredient list. One exception worth knowing — most sea salt is not iodised, and iodised table salt is a meaningful source of iodine in many diets.

Why it’s classified this way

Classified Safe as an ingredient, though total sodium still belongs on the nutrition panel.

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