Pink himalayan salt vs white rock salt

 Why do we need salt? 

Major six health benefits of salt are listed below. 

Salt is required by the body to perform, many vital functions. 

1. The actual ingredient of salt is sodium chloride. Sodium is needed for nerve impulse transmission. So the whole body communication and coordination through brain requires salt. 

2. It has a role in our immune system

3. The adrenal glands require salt to produce hormones. 

4. It is required to make HCl (hydrochloric acid) in our stomach which helps in protein digestion.

5. With a deficiency of salt, insulin resistance may go high.

6. The body retains water in it because of salt. If there is a deficiency of salt in conditions like diarrhea the water will just eliminate from the body and cause dehydration.

The most commonly available salt is sea salt. While Himalayan salt is found in Pakistan, A South Asian country, and is gaining its popularity because of its health benefits. 

Pink Himalayan vs white rock salt:

A white salt is a form of salt that mainly contains sodium chloride. Sometimes iodine is added to cope with the deficiency of iodine in our daily diet. It is commonly obtained by drying out sea water so is called sea salt.  

Why white salt seems more refined and purer

White salt goes through processing. To give it this beautiful color it has to be bleached. Aluminum silicate, potassium iodate, and some other additives are added to prevent them from clumping and staying as fine granules.

The pink salt and Sea salt

1. The normal sea salt contains microplastics in it while the pink Himalayan salt is completely free of these microplastics. These plastics are really bad for health and do not degenerate so easily, they may take more time than a human's life span to deteriorate. 

2. Himalayan salt contains a variety of trace minerals including magnesium, calcium, iron, zinc, etc. some researches show that Himalayan salt may contain up to 84 different minerals required by our body to function properly. 

3. Himalayan salt helps regulate blood pressure as it has a direct effect on hydration and amounts of fluid in the body. 

Pink salt is the salt taken out from Himalayan rocks and goes through very less processing so it contains many different traces of minerals in it, most claim to have 84 trace minerals present in it.   Although in minute amounts, nature‘s best combination of minerals makes all of them absorb well into your body.

Sea salt is obtained by natural evaporation of saltwater leaving behind salt mixed with many other trace minerals. Many generally recommend choosing any salt according to your taste, as Sodium intake is almost the in same amount in all types.

But most experts now recommend avoiding processed food including refined salt.