Healthiest salt to add to food

[jordankingbn2]

I used to use pink himalayan, but i've read it contains heavy metals.

I've heard good things about celtic sea salt, and iodized sea salt - what do you consider to be the healthiest salt and why?

 

[Princess Arabia]

Celtic salt. Here's why.

[Schizophonia]

Doesn't have any importance. 

[PsychedelicEagle]

From a natural hygiene perspective, adding salt will always be unhealthy (the best salt = no salt), as well as other additives such as oil and sugar. Reasons:

1. Added salt causes a mineral disbalance. We evolved eating whole foods as they are found in nature, with their original mineral distribution. By adding loads of salt to our food today we're very far from that.
2. Too much sodium prompts the body to excrete it, increasing excretion of other minerals like potassium, calcium, and potentially magnesium.
3. Whole foods already have the amount of sodium required for our healthy functioning.
4. Salt adds hyperpalatability to foods, making it harder for our natural control mechanisms to know when to stop.
5. Salt addition will make you more likely to search for processed foods.
6. Salt contains loads of microplastics (since it comes from the sea).

This said, please be cautious should you with to completely remove salt from your diet. I've done it personally and it was one of the best things I did. Now my paladar is so much cleaner, allowing me to savor vegetables in their raw, natural form such as broccoli, cauliflower, carrots. It is a tough path though, for the first weeks.

If you'd still wish to proceed you can look at @Princess Arabia said above as well as Potassium Chloride, as a replacement or complement to Sodium Chloride.

Edited April 13 by PsychedelicEagle

[Hayato]

No salt is the healthiest salt. All salt dehydrates the body.

A better alternative would be Atlantic dulse flakes, or lemon juice.

[LoneWonderer]

hey guys does anyone here know in depth about this low sodium salt stuff? I've bought one recently that is 66% reduced sodium content but can't find any proper information on the health benefits or disadvantages online or even chatgpt. Is this low sodium healthier than regular salt? Even though I eat very healthy I'm trying to improve my salt intake (Which was too high) but I'm not ready to quit salt for good. I've been on this low sodium salt for a week and notice no difference in taste profile of my food. If anything maybe a little more mettalic but that doesn't bother me and frankly tastes quite good

[PsychedelicEagle]

@LoneWonderer, can you pls share the nutritional contents of the low-sodium salt you're using?

PS: Nutritional Yeast is yet another alternative for flavoring food.

[D2sage]

Mineral sea salt.

Edited May 19 by D2sage

[gettoefl]

My suggestion is don't think salt think electrolytes. Mine were out of whack. Reason is I eat little packaged/processed food. I now make my own electrolytes: sea salt, potassium, magnesium, drink them with water and sleep like a baby through the night unlike before. 

This thread has some basic information which may help: https://www.reddit.com/r/nutrition/comments/1kr8g53/healthiest_electrolyte_powder/

I say experiment and find what helps in day to day life. Electrolytes are cheap in powder form.