Iodine Content of Celtic Sea Salt

[helvella]

We see many people mentioning that they get iodine from Celtic Sea Salt.

I don't dispute that it does contain some iodine. But the amount might be rather less than we tend to imagine.

I went to one company's web site (Selina) and checked on their plain Celtic Sea Salt.

Q. Does Celtic Sea Salt® contain Iodine?

A. Celtic Sea Salt® has a naturally occurring, trace amount of iodine. It’s approximately 0.68 parts per million. Though iodine an important mineral component, sea salt is not considered a significant source of it. Yet sea salt is an all-natural, pure source of iodine that is quickly absorbed and stored by your body!

A salt labeled as “iodized” typically means that iodine was chemically added to the salt, possibly using an artificial additive to bind the iodine to the salt. We do offer a natural answer. Our Celtic Sea Salt® Gourmet Seaweed Seasoning contains 350 mcg of iodine per ¼ tsp. It’s a truly natural, iodine-rich sea salt.

selinanaturally.com/faqs

0.68 parts per million is the same as 0.68 milligrams per kilogram. Or 680 micrograms per kilogram.

The standard iodine requirement is usually set at around 150 micrograms a day.

If you relied on Celtic Sea Salt alone for that, you would need to consume around 220 grams of salt a day.

You might also notice that they produce another product which, because they add seaweed, contains much more iodine. But that has another name and is not just Celtic Sea Salt.

Note: This is for background information and is not in any way advice to take iodine.

[Poppyfaery]

Thanks

[RedApple Administrator]

It looks pretty in the salt grinder 😉. If it looks good and taste good, then it must be good for you 😉

[Lora7again]

I once purchased some Hawaiian sea salt because I liked the colour.

😄

[Lora7again]

Men don't get this do they? lol

[helvella Administrator]

What makes a salt good?

On the off-chance you are asking about iodine ( ), The Times of India says:

While it has been used by a lot of people the same way they had been using table salt, some researchers have found out that the Himalayan salt lacks one of the most important elements that are required in any salt, iodine.

timesofindia.indiatimes.com...

But they are speaking from the point of view of a country in which iodised salt is usual.

[janeroar in reply to helvella]

Low iodine has caused terrible health problems in India. In part it’s to do with malnutrition but the soil is also low in it. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articl...

[helvella Administrator in reply to janeroar]

Low iodine is, worldwide, far more prevalent than the other thyroid issues combined.

It is only from the point of view of those in Europe, the USA, etc., and some iodine-replete countries, that other thyroid issues are seen to dominate.

[Bellazzurra]

Thank you for sharing this

[helvella Administrator]

The one that really surprised me (years ago, when I first read of the list of exclusions for low iodine diet) was glacé cherries.

At one time, a vast proportion used to be coloured with Erythrosine (E127) - disodium salt of 2,4,5,7-tetraiodofluorescein - which has lots of iodine. But a quick check suggests few, if any, available in UK supermarkets use this. Most seem now to use various "natural" extracts for colouring.

Seems also to be used for other purposes such as dental plaque disclosing agents.

[MjM2015]

I take iodine and selenium daily. Lugols 15% currently on 4 drops do to how deficient I am... I know theres mixed reviews but it's made a big difference for me