turned into a carrier for other flavors and for
decorative colors. Examples of flavored salts
include celery salt with ground celery seeds,
garlic salt with dehydrated garlic granules,
and the smoked and roasted salts found in
Wales, Denmark, and Korea. The “black salt”
of India, more of a gray-pink when ground, is
an unrefined mixture of minerals with a
sulfurous smell. Black and red Hawaiian salts
are made by mixing ordinary sea salt with
finely ground lava, clay, or coral.
Salt and the Body
Salt and Blood Pressure Sodium and
chloride ions are essential components of the
system that keeps our general body chemistry
in working balance. They mostly remain in
the fluid that surrounds all our cells, the
plasma, the fluid portion of the blood, where
they balance the potassium and other ions
inside the cells. It’s estimated that we need