About salt -- I wonder why human beings have such a taste for salt?  The purpose
of the taste for sweet is to encourge us to eat as ripe as possible fruit, or so
the common theory goes.  But we have a taste for bitter, sweet, salty, and
sour.  Maybe the salt taste was to encourage us to eat meat, or even fish?  Any
ideas?

Ingrid Bauer wrote:

>   This salt  contains  less sodium chloride than
> commercial sea salt (86% sodium chloride vs. 99.99%).
>
> Thank you rachel for this information about salt . I knew that refining was
> bad but didn't know to what extent .
> Are you sure about 86 % ? i thought he will be more than that. Would you
> have the exact composition of 14 % left.
> If the brand name celtic salt comes from "les marais de guerande" in the
> south of britanny ( France) i know the place . It is salt marches that have
> been digged out and dikes were built to make lot of different basins . The
> tides fill the basins and after closing the dikes are left to dry . Then the
> salt is scrapped with long wooden rakes.
> That way the salt is mixed with little bit of everything that is in thoses
> muddy flat. That explain the high mineral content other than sodium
> chloride, and the gray color.
> In france i was using this one but when i moved here ,before i found celtic
> salt i used rock salt from Utah ( unrefined mined salt from old marine
> deposit ) it have little bit of a red dots in it  that is the red clay of
> utah. Celtic salt is way tastier and before i found it i was prefering to
> drink sea water to fulfill my special  sodium needs .
> jean-claude