Customer Reviews

Celtic Sea SaltŪ, Light Grey, By The Grain & Salt Society, Coarse Ground, 1 lb

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I first heard about this sea salt in the book, "Real Food", by Nina Planck, who touted its health benefits and delicious taste. Unlike most salts available today -- including gourmet sea salts, kosher salts, and table salts -- Celtic Sea Salt is hand-harvested, unprocessed, and unrefined in Brittany using centuries-old techniques. This means it retains its original natural minerals, the absence of which in today's diet can contribute to a range of health problems.

So fine, it's good for you. But how does it taste? As a regular user of expensive sea salts (purchased in gourmet food stoes, Whole Foods, etc.) before finding this one, I can say it is by far the best tasting one on the market. It actually has a delicious stand-alone flavor and tastes less metallic than other sea salts I've purchased and more like authentic salt should. I purchased some at Whole Foods and kept it out in a salt cellar on our table. It quickly became the only salt we use, both to season our food at the table as well as in a wide range of recipes. Now I buy it in bulk via Amazon, which offers a better price per ounce than the small jars sold at Whole Foods.

This unprocessed sea salt has much more than just sodium chloride in it. There are dozens of trace minerals in it making it much healthier for you. It is coarse, so just a little pinch sprinkled into your cooking or table food will do it. The taste is strong and goes a long way, but is SSOOO much better than normal table salt. If you want it fine, you can grind it in peppercorn grinder or buy the fine ground for a little more money.

This sea salt is excellent for cooking but also for general use. It tastes superior to any salt that I've ever tried and since it's harvested from cold, northern seas it has a much richer mineral content. Magnesium is especially important for the body and many studies show that approximately 2/3 of people are deficient in this element, this salt has a higher magnesium content than any other that I know of thanks in large part to the minimal processing that it undergoes.

* 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

You know how it is - the local store brings in a new product for customers to try, you buy it and like it, then find the store doesn't stock it. Sigh. I do not use salt as a rule. I find that my tasting has changed and adding salt is just, well, too salty for me. This product, however, is very nice as it has a mild flavor. I like that there is magnesium and potassium added. A bit more expensive that the usual table salt, but worth the price.

This salt is only $5.00 from the manufacturer's website, celticseasalt . c o m , further more this website and this manufacturer is highly deceptive, and it is obvious by the comments on this website. all modern sea salt has significantly less trace minerals than ancient himalayan sea salt. the manufacturer provides a graph that seems to indicate this salt has more than 3 times the trace minerals, when all they are really comparing is the moisture content. you are paying for about 12% water when you buy this product by weight, which is about 3 times the amount of water in himalayan salt.

Himalayan salt forms an alkaline solution in water, due to its higher trace mineral content, while all modern sea salt forms acidic solutions. this salt does have a decent flavor, which i find goes well with fish, but for all other cooking, himalayan salt is both tastier and healthier. a lot of reviewers have been duped by the spurious and misleading information on the manufacturers website. this salt has a significantly lower ratio of trace minerals to sodium than himalayan salt.

Finally, the mercury and other heavy metal content in modern sea salt is much higher than in himalayan salt. harvesting "deep water" which protects against many organic pollutants that float like gasoline in a street puddle, does nothing to prevent the increased levels of mercury, cadmium, arsenic and other heavy metals from getting into the salt.

I learned about this product on the Master Cleanse website. I had tried some of the organic sea salts available at our local market. Using the recommended 2 teaspoon per 32 oz of H20, the store bought stuff was hard for me to gag down. I ordered the Celtic Grey on Amazon, and was pleasantly surprised by the taste. I actually came to like it, and it's also supposed to be loaded with beneficial minerals.

The salt taste a bit light compared to 'table salt'. The important thing is that it has almost none
of the negative effect of table salts and it is giving you extra minerals.

I must note that the salt requires a grinder as it is difficult to use in a straight shaker.

I was on the Master Cleanse for thiry days, I use the recommended 2 tsp in warm water, and I only used up half the bag. Great bargain online, in the stores I would have to pay same price for half the size.

I, too, began using this salt after reading "Real Food". I love, love, love it! It's got a great flavor and, after eating this salt, table salt is way too "salty" to eat (in a bad way). This salt adds a great flavor to my eggs in the morning, my salads at lunch, and most dinners that I have at night. I will NEVER go back to regular salt!

We love the taste of this salt. It is very course, I mainly use this to throw into soups and things that it will dissolve into, or dissolve with a bit of melted butter to put on vegetables and pastas and such, or onto items where you would traditionally use a course, kosher type salt. I put it in at the end of cooking so I won't "cook off" all the minerals it contains. It has a nice, kind of sweet taste, once you try it you will never want to go back to the heavily processed salt Americans generally use. I have not tried it in a grinder yet, but when I tried to process it in my spice mill it was difficult to grind down due to the fact that there is some moisture in it. So we generally just buy the finer grind for table use, although my kids do use small amounts of this at the table sometimes and enjoy it. We find it is also A LOT more pleasant to use for nasal irrigations than regular salt, a lot less harsh on your sinus passages. Delicious and healthy for you!