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Celtic Sea Salt® Brand - The Original Sea Salt Brand
Healthier, and Tastes better than Table Salt!
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Why use Celtic Sea Salts?
- Celtic Sea Salts are a prime condiment that stimulates salivation, helps
to balance and replenishes all of the body's electrolytes.
- It provides renewed energy
- It gives you a high resistance to infections and bacterial diseases
- It supplies all 82 vital trace minerals to promote optimum biological
function and cellular maintenance.
- It balances alkaline/acid levels
- It restores good digestion
- The natural iodine in these salts protects against
radiation, atomic fallout and many other pollutants.
- It can aid in relieving allergies and skin diseases
- And overall greatly reduces toxins and to help prevent ill-health
- Properly stored, salt keeps virtually indefinitely.
This ain't your daddy's table salt.
Well, maybe it is, if your daddy is a salt farmer in France. We distribute genuine natural Celtic Sea Salts produced
without refining, oven drying or chemical additives for the best possible Organic Health. The salt normally used in most homes and restaurants (refined table salt) is very different from unrefined Sea Salt. Table salts are mined from the earth with bulldozers and heavy machinery, and then iodized, bleached, and diluted with anti-caking agents. Chemicals are added to refined salt in the processing and all the beneficial minerals and trace elements that are found in natural Celtic Sea Salt® are removed. So you lose out both ways! Natural salts that come from pristine clean salt farms very definitely make food more tasty, and these salts make food more digestible, and may often, even measurably, help improve health.
Natural Celtic Sea Salts are a “moist” unrefined sea salt usually found on the coastal areas of France. Its light grey, almost light purple color comes from the clay found in the salt flats. The salt is collected by hand using traditional Celtic methods. Grey Salt has gained great fame in the mainstream culinary world in the last few years and is considered by many to be the best quality salt available. This natural products is obtained from traditional
organic salt farmers, under the highest quality controls. The method used
for gathering them follows a time-honored 2,000 year-old Celtic culture
and tradition, supported and authenticated by modern Quality and Purity
control establishments.
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Precious Minerals Working Together
Raw Sea Salts on ocean shore
Trace elements are found in minute quantities in sea water and in natural unrefined sea salt, but are often absent in food and dietary supplements. Trace elements are needed to assure and maintain
proper function of the body's systems. If any one of them is left out
-or even just diminished - a link will be missing, and the whole organism
will suffer. That is, if any of our internal oceans
are shortchanged of trace nutrients, the body will lack the triggering
bio-electrical impulses and mineral building blocks necessary to operate
at full efficiency or to renew its cells properly.
Humans need whole, clean ocean salt; medical and biological facts support
that. Genuinely healthful sea salt is composed of minerals from the ocean
waters which have been transformed by microorganisms, algae and plants
into organic nutrients; these in turn are bioavailable to animals of the
sea and land.
The ocean contains the precious minerals our body requires for optimum
function. The salt refiners, however keep these facts hidden from the
public because they profit from selling the minerals extracted from the
rich ocean brine. The same vital minerals that, when left in at the onset,
make salt the vital necessity and its color light gray.
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Evaluating Various Natural Salts
The percentage of magnesium salts varies greatly from one natural salt
to the others. Even within the same salt farm installation, it is possible
to extract two salts of slightly different magnesium content.
Cold, active, northern seas, because of upwelling and other marine and
climatic conditions, offer the advantages of a richer mix of minerals.
Geographical orientation of the coastline also plays an important part
in the final quality of the naturally extracted sea salts. Winds not only
dry more than sun alone, but "load" the salt flats and stacks
with additional trace elements, mainly iodine salts. These additional
nutrients are carried as spray from the crests of waves (by aerosolization).
Finally, the method used for gathering salt from natural flats and effectively
separating it from the hard clay sole is crucial to the production of
health-giving salt. There must be some constant eddying movement to the
brine - a kinetic crystallization - over and through the clay flats (if
concrete-lined beds should be reused, as in refinery-type salt, the efflorescence
of the cement pollutes and loads the salt with toxins). In order to ionize
and harmonize the trace elements by the clay's filtering action, the final
hand-raking of the moist crystals is done by artisans with such a skillful
light touch that almost no particles of clay appear in the finished natural
product. In the case of "Flower of Ocean" salt, an almost white
Celtic salt which is also harvested traditionally and rare because it
crystallizes naturally on top of the water only during the hottest days
of the harvest. The gathering is done delicately from the top layer of
the brine and thus NO clay is ever trapped in the final smaller crystal
structure.
Both methods just described are still followed by a dedicated group of
professional natural salt farmers in Europe who perpetuate the traditional
skills passed down through generations from antiquity. When harvested
in these ways, both of these natural Celtic Sea Salts are highly beneficial to
anyone's health as they possess therapeutic qualities that are capable
of restoring balance, even in longstanding chronic afflictions.
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Comparing Natural Celtic Sea Salt to Mexican Salt?
Much of Mexico's crude salt, after being bulldozed, is shipped in bulk
mainly to Japan. There it is refined by electrolysis and used in miso,
soy sauce, and other so-called "natural" products, then shipped
back to natural food stores here. A state law forbids any Japanese firm
or individual from making their own salt. The refining and sale of salt
is a government monopoly, monitored by Japan's Salt and Tobacco Bureau.
Their entire supply is imported and always highly refined. A healthy trend
has sprung from that: it consists in artificially "loading"
the refined salt with specific minerals in order to reconstitute it. While
this does not MAKE natural salt, it is a step in the right direction.
There is at least one miso maker in the U.S. who uses Celtic salt for
his fermentation. His product is rated above any of the Japanese imported
miso.
A smaller amount of this Mexican crude salt is bought by Californians,
who boil and recrystallize it into a totally demineralized white salt
which is often sold through natural and macrobiotic food channels under
the name "Balanced Minerals Salt." However, the boiling of crude
salt removes all its precious trace elements. This deficiency has been
recognized as the primary cause of demineralization and malabsorption.
The following two analyses, performed at a Boston-based laboratory, are
further proof of the value of natural Celtic Sea Salts. By and large, the essential
minerals in Celtic salt are 10 times that of the "Balanced Minerals
Salt" of boiled Mexican salt.
TABLE 1 - Comparing Celtic Natural Gray Sea Salts to Boiled Mexican
Salt
| Mineral |
French Celtic |
Mexican Boiled |
| Magnesium |
1.00% |
0.1% |
| Manganese |
.01 |
.0001 |
| Boron |
.001 |
.0001 |
| Copper |
.001 |
.0001 |
| Silicon |
.01 |
.001 |
| Iron |
.1 |
.01 |
| Nickel |
.0001 |
.0001 |
| Moisture-% By Weight |
5.79 |
0.31 |
TABLE 2 - Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy
| Mineral |
French Celtic |
Mexican Boiled |
| Magnesium by weight as Mg. |
0.42% |
0.032% |
| Magnesium by weight as MgSO4 |
2.10% |
0.152% |
Table 1 uses the Emission Spectrographic Analysis of oven drying, while
Table 2 uses the Atomic Absorption Method. Such analyses seldom agree
totally, even when performed by the same laboratory, however, both tables
show that Celtic gray sea salt contains 10 times more trace minerals than
the Mexican refined and boiled variety.
The moisture assay at the end of Table 1 is also worth noting, since
a dried salt does not retain any of its volatile trace elements.
Domestic salt refiners cannot economically develop a production method
that will yield clean whole food salt. The market for edible salt is too
small to bother with when compared with the huge industrial consumption.
The trace elements such as magnesium, bromide and sulfur, are all extracted
from sea salts by those refiners since they are a great source of profit
for the multinational big ocean chemical business.
Long ago the U.S. government directly asked the refineries to define
what constitutes edible table salt. It was profitable and convenient for
these salt and chemical conglomerates to tailor the requested definition
to fit their own product: Salt, they declared, "must not contain
over 2 1/2% of trace minerals--back then, all minerals were lumped together
under the term "impurities" and were extracted for their profit.
Refinery salt, however, may legally receive up to 2% of chemical additives,
such as bleaches, anti-caking agents and conditioners.
Watch Out for These Additives:
Ferrocyanide, yellow prussiate of soda, tricalcium phosphate, alumine-calcium
silicate, sodium aluminosilicate -are all anti-caking agents whose role
is to prevent the salt from mixing with water, in the box or within the
human body. Thus preventing the salt from doing one of its important functions
on the organism and denying you sufficient organic health to ward of illnesses.
Proven Facts About Salt and Good Health
Public health policy should be guided only by proven facts. Current scientific
research reveals that there are actually very few salt-related health
problems. Sodium, in the form of sodium chloride, plays an important part
in the primary processes of digestion and absorption. Salt activates the
first enzyme in the mouth, salivary amylase. At this stage, sodium exposes
food to the tastebuds -a reason why food has always been salted "to
taste"- it also helps start digestion by breaking down food. In the
parietal cells of the stomach wall, sodium chloride generates hydrochloric
acid, one of the most important of ail digestive secretions.
If potassium is in excess in relation to sodium, the body's enzyme pathway
loses its ability to produce hydrochloric acid. Thus most diets, but especially
vegetarian and grain diets, require slightly more salt in order to prevent
an excess of potassium over sodium. With salt present, the acidity of
the partially digested food is able to trigger off some needed natural
sodium bicarbonate, derived from the supply of sodium chloride, as well
as enzymatic and bile secretions from the gall bladder and pancreatic
ducts. Without salt no digestion is possible.
In illnesses such as diabetes mellitus, Addison's disease, kidney or
gastrointestinal disorders, or any time there has been surgery or other
significant fluid losses triggered, the requirement for an abundant supply
of salt is vital for survival. A certain amount of extra salt ration at
that crucial time has often been the factor that has saved lives.
High Blood Pressure and Refined Salt
The research of Dr. John H. Laragh, M.D., at the Hypertension Center
of the New York-Cornell Medical Center, shows that the High Blood Pressure
(HBP) problem lies not in salt intake but in an overactive hormone system.
When this system is overactive, there are high renin levels (renin is a protein-digesting enzyme that acts in raising blood pressure.), body salt content
is usually excessively reduced and thus salt starvation could occur if
the patient is put on a low salt diet. On the other hand with low renin levels,
which occur only in a third of hypertensive people, a
sodium excess occurs. Only patients in the last group should lower their sodium
intake.
We continue to urge all persons to maintain a reserve stock of natural Celtic Sea Salts at home for several important reasons, because we are concerned people get the best organic foods and maintain their health. But also because salt crops, at times, do fail due from bad weather and natural
disasters so we encourage you to stock sea salt in advance.
Properly stored, sea salts keep virtually indefinitely. Also restrictive regulations
and shipper's strikes may arbitrarily cut off our supply.
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