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Customer Review
- Reviewed in Canada on July 29, 2024Pretty strong words, I realize, but hear me out and do some research of your own, too...
First and foremost, this is just SALT, so:
- The price is, quite frankly, insane. Seems like salt prices are kinda out of wack across 鶹 at the moment (in my personal opinion), but I also feel like prior to writing this review, the price was even higher...
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- The health claims are dubious at *BEST,* downright harmful at *WORST.*
Let's talk this through: why does sea salt cost this much? Because it's from the Celtic Sea? So what? Oh, because it's supposed to be "better for you" than other salt? In what meaningful way? The advertising material says it has 10x more magnesium, 100x more potassium, and 40x more calcium than "regular table salt." ...How much of each does regular table salt have?
A quick google search shows 20mg of your daily calcium, 10mg of your daily potassium, and 0mg of your daily magnesium in ***100g of salt!*** That's 38758mg of sodium or 1685% of your daily! A single "dash" of salt is recorded as having ZERO PERCENT of all of these!
100g of salt a day's going to kill you sooner rather than later, and 10, 40, or 100x zero is still zero...
Also, who in the heck is trying to get minerals from SALT!? Eating a piece of fruit would have a bajillion times more, I bet! Just stick to real food! Come on now! No self-respecting doctor is *actually* going to recommend you use SALT as a way to make up for missing minerals...
The rest of the health claims are ridiculous. If you want to promote hydration, drink some water. The large amount of sodium in SALT isn't going to turn your glass of water into a sports drink. Odds are incredibly high you don't actually need to -- on a clinical level -- increase your hydration.
Doctors normally want you to cut back on your salt anyhow, and this is just fine ground salt, it isn't large flake or something extra fancy that would justify this ridiculous price.
I tried tasting it on the tip of my finger and I didn't like the taste at all, but once I figured maybe my finger wasn't as squeaky-clean as I thought it was, I tried a clean spoon and dropped a tiny bit on my tongue to taste it instead. The odd taste wasn't as pronounced -- maybe it disappeared altogether -- but that just meant it was salt... I didn't taste any huge difference, like I'd expect from freaking SALT!
Please, please, please talk to your doctor about this kind of thing if this advertising appeals to you. Do some research. Don't try to self-medicate with salt.
2/5 is the best I can do given what I feel are really scummy practices and a final product that can't justify the price at all.
