It is believed that salt is more than other foods related to superstitions and customs.
The chronicle says that mankind has consumed salt for more than ten thousand years, since the time of Homer, who called table salt divine, since it was more expensive than gold. In places of rock salt deposits, real battles for it took place. Emperors, kings and kings used gold salt shakers, and at court kept a man in the position of a salt shaker who controlled them.
Salt properties
Salt is a white substance with a sharp specific taste, used as a seasoning for food. The origin of the word "salt" originates from the Latin word sal, which in Greek means hals means "sea". It seems to many that salt has a smell, and it smells like sea.
Meanwhile, it was found that some types of salt have different colors and smells.
The color of salt in nature
On the shelves of stores quite often there is salt of various colors. For example, white, black, pink.
Each has its own functions: one goes for salads, the second - for preservation and pickles, and the third is recommended as a disease prevention. Laboratory experts determine whether salt has a smell and in which dishes it needs to be added.
The hypothesis that all salt is salty is considered erroneous. Only salty salt has a pure salty taste. Sweet beryllium salts, bitter magnesium salts and tasteless calcium carbonate are found in nature.
It is customary to see white salt, but you can find a product with a blue tint, which is obtained experimentally in the laboratory, since in nature it is a rarity.
In Pakistan, red salt is mined manually.
Common white matter
A transparent crystal that is odorless is sodium chloride, but if this substance is ground, it will look like colorless crystals. If the product is natural, marine origin, it almost always contains impurities of other mineral substances. They elegantly give the product unusual shades, but most often it tastes like native salt. There are different shades of brown or gray.
The substance is capable of absorbing third-party odors and hold them for a rather long time. Sometimes it may seem that salt has the smell of the sea or any other product that lies nearby.
Salt can be of various origin (stone, self-setting, cage) and uneven grinding size. With such a variety of origin, the question arises: does the salt smell? It turns out, yes, if there is any impurity in it. For example, iodized salt smells of iodine, while aromatic salt smells like flavors added to it.
The extraneous taste and smell of salt appears due to the excessive content of various impurities. It can be iron, magnesium, calcium and others.
Types of salt in nature
In nature, many salts, especially valuable ones, are useful for human health. Black salt gained great popularity. Salt experts say that it not only improves the taste of cooked dishes, but also has healing powers. With caution, you need to add it to food, since the smell of salt is quite specific.
It is believed that pink Himalayan salt is the most valuable that is available in the kitchen. This salt has in its composition 84 minerals and trace elements. Helps in restoring water balance, cleanses the body of toxins accumulated in the process of consumption of refined salts from industrial products.
Himalayan salt is most often used in cooking, as it gives the dishes a piquant taste. In addition, if we talk about the effect of salt on human health, it was found that it is completely absorbed in the intestine. The body does not require any specific effort.
The blue salt of Persia is a natural rock salt, which belongs to the rarest species. They get it in the salt mines of Iran. This salt has an unusual smell, it has a bright aroma and a light, spicy, softer aftertaste.
Ground blue salt is an excellent substitute for ordinary table salt for cereals and legumes. Just add a small amount of granules and you will immediately see an amazing way of decorating elegant dishes. Persian salt is rich in potassium and chlorine.
Red Hawaiian salt is called alaea - the classic sea salt of Hawaiian cuisine that blends naturally with red dust. Red color is obtained in the process of evaporation, at this moment the clay saturates the salt with iron. This is an amazing red color. The composition contains iodine and magnesium. In ordinary table salt, the amount of iron is five times less than in Hawaiian salt, which is why the “iron” taste is felt. Salt is extremely good for meat and fish dishes.
Gray British salt is made in the south of Britain, on the French coast of the Atlantic Ocean. Gray color is explained by a special type of clay. At the bottom there is a precipitate, which not only saturates the salt crystals with trace elements, but also gives a gray tint to the product. In the salt, a low content of sodium is observed, there are much more minerals in it. Cooked vegetables cooked with such salt are exclusive.
Salt and magic
In order for salt to be used with maximum benefit, you need to choose it correctly. In what cases it is better to use it, you will understand by studying the properties, color and smell of salt. In the kitchen, the product is considered an important ingredient that can enhance the taste of dishes. Salt appears as an additional supplier of sodium and potassium. Special condition: salt must be unrefined.
Salt protects against evil, according to healers. Sometimes they specially aromatize it for a greater effect when it affects a person.
Probably quite justifiably, our ancestors took salt with them on the road as a talisman. In unclean places she was thrown over her shoulder so that evil forces could not harm the person. In magical rites, the magician often uses table salt with a smell.
It is spoken and given to a person for oral administration. The main thing is that the product should not be oversaturated with unknown aromas, so as not to harm a person. Ordinary table salt, which people are used to seeing in large quantities on their table, can be poison.
The benefits of salt for humans
Salt has antiseptic properties. In ancient times it was said that one who starts a meal with salt warns himself of seventy diseases. Doctors say: the best sleeping pill by nature is salt.
To salt food, it is better to use sea salt. It is worth abandoning the stone, because it has a lot of aluminum.
Conclusion
The use of salt for the body is absolutely obvious, and it does not matter what color or smell it is. Just in everything you need to know the measure so as not to upset the balance in the body.