Mineral Salt from salt licks

**Hippie Dad** · 09-06-2011, 05:36 PM

If you've ever been in the Health Food section of your local big supermarket, or in a Health Food store, you might have seen Utah Mineral Salt, (not a brand name, a type) packaged in little containers with high price tags on it.
But you can get it at a lower price than table salt.

Utah Mineral Salt is gouged out of land from ancient sea beds in Utah, in some cases with bulldozers, since the deposits are so plentiful. It is loaded with trace minerals that regular table salt has had stripped out of it by Government regulation. It already contains iodine.

I bought a regular animal salt lick years ago, "dirt cheap", and have been chipping on it ever since. I no longer eat white salt. One of the salt companies in Utah mentions how they themselves eat the coarse, red salt, ref the Wolf Creek Ranch website.
The difference between human grade and animal grade is a matter of how finely the salt is powdered. I chip off pieces and grind them to a powder in an electric grinder, so it isn't coarse when I use it.

This tastes 'way better (though stronger) than the bleached out stuff you get in the store, where even sea salt is refined to a bare sodium chloride.
The trace minerals are good for you. It has iodine. The Iron that it is full of is good for you; strangely, the iron even put a lot of the color back into my middle-aged wife's hair.

You can't use it for pickilng, as the iron makes the pickling medium cloudy, and if you make a lot of snowy white cakes from sifted white flour, the color and flavor might be noticeable. Other than that, it beats plain white sodium chloride any way you look at it.

**zakity** · 09-06-2011, 10:23 PM

We use pink salt or sea salt. The white crappy stuff is only used as a mouth rinse or for cleaning.

**marlas1too** · 09-08-2011, 06:36 AM

actually i use solar salt you get in 40 lb. bags to spread on walkways in winter-just sea salt in chunks--i get the kind that says 100% solar salt from wally world for around 5.00-one bag has lasted me over 4 years so far and still has some in it--i have a salt grinder--hugs to all fv