The best, safest and healthiest edible salts include sea salt, pickling salt, low-sodium rock salt, etc.

1. Sea salt

Sea salt is a type of edible salt. It is made by introducing seawater into salt fields, and is then exposed to the sun, evaporated, and crystallized. Sea salt is mainly divided into coarse salt, fine salt and flake salt. The production process of sea salt is complicated, the production cycle is long, the production cost is high, and the taste and quality are good.

2. Pickling salt

Pickling salt is a "slightly less precise table salt" and a "sun-dried sea salt formed after seawater evaporates." Generally speaking, these "larger particle solar salt" is more suitable for pickling certain foods (vegetables or meat); due to its relatively large particles and slow solubility, it is not suitable for daily household cooking.

3. Low-sodium rock salt

Half salt is a type of salt produced on land. The seawater that was once turned into salty water on land due to geological movements. After a process of "long-term evaporation", these salty substances crystallized to form "rock-like mineral deposits". Low-sodium rock salt reduces sodium ion intake and increases potassium ion intake and is suitable for special groups. This kind of salt has finer particles and is more suitable for daily cooking.

Types of table salt

In ancient times, there were many types of salt, including: crimson snow, peach blossom, green, purple, white, etc. From the source, it is divided into: sea salt is decoctioned from sea brine, well salt is decoctioned from well brine, alkali salt is decoctioned from scraping alkaline soil, pond salt is made from pond brine and dried, and cliff salt is produced between earth cliffs. Sea salt, well salt, and alkaline salt come from humans, while pond salt and cliff salt come from heaven.

Modern Zhang Tingyu’s "History of the Ming Dynasty" records: "The salt from Jiezhou is formed by Feng Shui, the salt from Ningxia is scraped from the ground, the salt from Huaihe and Zhejiang is boiled, the salt from Sichuan and Yunnan is extracted from the wells, and the salt from Fujian and The salt in Guangdong is brine, the salt in Huainan is fried, the salt in Huaibei is dried, and the salt in Shandong is fried or dried. This is very different. "Tao Hongjing's "Famous Doctors" in the Southern Dynasty recorded: "East Sea salt, North Sea salt, South Sea salt. , Hedong salt pool, Liangyi salt well, Xiqiangshan salt, Huzhongshu salt, all have different colors, and the one from Hedong is the winner. ”