Hi everyone. This is Monica Reinagle, the nutrition diva here with your quick and dirty

tips for eating well and feeling fabulous. When you're shopping for salt, you've got lots of options. You can buy sea salt or

regular salt. It might be finely textured or coarse. It could be white, gray, or pink.

It might be kosher or iodized. Today I'd like to talk about the differences between all these

different types of salt and whether any of them offer any nutritional

advantages. Regular table salt can come from rock salt that's a natural

salt deposit in the earth or from evaporated

seawater. If it's labeled sea salt then you know for sure it came from

sea water. But once both of these types have been cleaned up and purified

there's really no chemical or

nutritional difference between the two. If you were to dissolve sea salt in water it

would be virtually indistinguishable from regular old table salt. The biggest

difference is that sea salt can be processed in a way

that produces larger crystals and the size of the crystal makes a difference in

how you perceive the salt that you put on your food. Larger crystals sprinkled in

a dish give a concentrated burst of

saltiness and a little crunch that many people enjoy.

Seesalt of course can also be processed into fine crystals just like regular table

salt. And whenever you have a fine-grain salt, an anti-caking agent is usually added.

These additives are harmless. They just keep you from having to chip the salt off a solid block every time you use it.

You can buy both regular and sea salt with or without

added iodine. Iodine is a nutrient that among other things helps prevent mental

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