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Default Hopefully last word on Kosher Salt (difference between Sea Salt and Kosher)


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> Sea salt, obtained by evaporating seawater,


You haven't a clue... ALL salt is the result of evaporated sea water...
mined salt was once a sea, then dried up, the water evaporated. But "sea
salt" is NOT a result of evaporating sea water... sea salt is a naturally
occuring phenomena... it's salt that floats to the surface by becoming
attached to foreign schmutz that floats... it forms on schmutz kinda like
how sugar forms on a string to become rock candy.

I snipped all the rest of your post because none of that was factual either.

BTW, the product marketed as "Sea Salt" is NOT kosher... it's skimmed along
with plant and *animal* parts. Sea salt is not pure salt in that it also
contains many minerals/elements that in of themselves are kosher but are not
necessarilly safe for folks to ingest on a regular basis.. one should always
query their medical professional about the use of sea salt... many
prescription medicines react badly when sea salt is introduced into the
body, and medical doctors will typically rule out sea salt for
pregnant/nursing women. But it's not the natuarilly occuring elements in
sea salt that renders it non-kosher, it's the non-kosher animals and animal
parts (excretia) it contains. Sea salt is very different from mined salt
and solar evaporated salt