View Single Post
Old 01-26-08, 03:36 PM
  #17  
Homebrew01
Super Moderator
 
Homebrew01's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Ffld Cnty Connecticut
Posts: 21,843

Bikes: Old Steelies I made, Old Cannondales

Mentioned: 12 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 1173 Post(s)
Liked 927 Times in 612 Posts
Originally Posted by MessenJah


^ This low sodium salt makes me laugh It is in fact 'low salt' salt

It is exactly the same as normal table salt - i.e. it is 100% NaCl. It does not contain 33% less sodium by mass - 10g of salt sense contains exactly the same amount of sodium as 10g of normal salt. But salt sense crystals are bigger and they are irregularly-shaped, meaning that there are more air spaces inbetween each crystal, so the salt occupies 33% more space than normal salt. In other words, a given volume of salt sense would contain 33% less salt than normal salt. This allows them to get away with telling people it contains

33% less sodium
(per teaspoon)

Which, of course, is utterly f&cking pointless! For obvious reasons.

What they don't tell you is that it contains 33% less chloride per teaspoon too

I can't believe there are people out there who actually believe that salt sense is lower in sodium than 'normal salt' and that salt sense is healthier

At least you get a 33 % larger container to hold the extra air !!
__________________
Bikes: Old steel race bikes, old Cannondale race bikes, less old Cannondale race bike, crappy old mtn bike.

FYI: http://www.bikeforums.net/forum-sugg...ad-please.html
Homebrew01 is offline