From the BBC:
Romi Alexander of So Natural, which supplies Himalayan Crystal Salt, said: "Table salt is a highly refined, processed white substance that's devoid of nutrients."
Interestingly, the BBC's rehash of the fakecharity press release doesn't round off with a sound bite from a government minister agreeing that 'something must be done'.
Thursday, 17 November 2011
Idiotic statement of the day
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Devoid of nutrients? Apart no doubt from the Sodium Chloride which acts as an essential electrolyte in the body.
"Food without salt tastes much better. There's quite enough already present in fruit, vegetables, meat and fish."
I dare the people at Which to go down to Claridges and ask Gordon Ramsay to hand over the salt in his kitchens and see what response they get.
Honestly, that's just total and utter crap.
W42, sure, but either you regard NaCl as a 'nutrient' in the narrow sense of 'something which is nourishing' (like potatoes or meat) or as 'something which animals need to ingest'.
In the latter case, the statement is nonsense, in the former case, the statement would imply that Himalayan Crystal Salt is full of tasty carbohydrates and protein (which I sorely doubt).
JT, "total and utter crap" is a fair summary.
Eee chuck. Even non-posh salt (possibly more than posh salt) has a range of additives and so might be argued as a source of calcium, magnesium or potassium.....
See? Every cloud, and all that. God Bless Salt for Proles. Will it count as one of my Five A Day?
Or to put it another way, Himalayan Crystal Salt is an impure version of table salt. A staggeringly expensive way of buying impurities.
What was it again - 19 times more expensive?
When I was a little lad, my mum used to read me stories and there was one where a princess got banished from the court for saying that she loved her father (the king) like meat loves salt. Eventually she comes back incognito, gets a job as a cook and serves up an entire meal with no salt in it. The food is so tasteless that the king has the cook, his daughter, dragged before him to explain, and when she points out the lack of salt there is a tearful reuinion and it all ends happily ever after (unless you work for CASH, of course).
BTW, I am convinced that no-one in CASH believes that salt is harmful for you: they are simply in it for the oodles of lovely public money they get for being a bansturbatory fakecharity. The name says it all really.
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