Salt...now with 30% less sodium

[:) Smiley]

I saw a can of salt that said "now with 30% less sodium". What the heck's that supposed to mean? Isn't salt sodium chloride?

[Spiffor]

I suppose they added some flour / sugar / cocaine / any white powder in their product, and seel it as a "salt" package.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Mmmm... cocaine salt.

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Mmmm... cocaine salt.

That would sure boost their sales

[Mordoch]

Re: Salt...now with 30% less sodium

Originally posted by Smiley
I saw a can of salt that said "now with 30% less sodium". What the heck's that supposed to mean? Isn't salt sodium chloride?

It means they shrunk the size of the container and the serving size 30%, but they are still charging you the same price.

[korn469]

Mrs. Dash could become Mrs. Crack

[Elok]

Someone at the factory has severe issues and tossed some bleach in the mix. No sodium there, just chlorine. Either that, or they wanted a clever way of saying the package is 30% smaller and making it sound like a good thing.

[Spiffor]

More seriously, our usual products rarely correspond to their exact chemical composition. When you buy a bottle of water, you don't get pure H₂O, but a bunch of various mineral mixed in the water. I don't know for the US, but in France, this mineral composition is an advertising factor.

I'd suppose it the same for salt. You don't get pure NaCl, but I guess there are many elements in the contents which makes salt X slightly different from salt Y.

[:) Smiley]

Note: said salt was sold in New Jersey. Should that mean something?

[Richard I]

Originally posted by Spiffor

That would sure boost their sales

Have you ever tried sniffing salt? -Don't!

[MattH]

Originally posted by Richard I
Have you ever tried sniffing salt? -Don't!

Aargh, why didn't you say so before?

[Worthingtons]

Is Sodium bad??

[The Mad Monk]

It probably has some KCl and possibly KI in the mix.

[Giant_Squid]

Well, it seems to me that if salt is half sodium and half chlorine, then 30% less sodium would mean that there's a good deal of unbonded chlorine just lying around in the package. And since unbonded chlorine is, IIRC, a highly poisonous gas, if I were you I'd stay away from that brand, or at least open it in a highly ventilated area with a gas mask on.

[Dis]

well the chlorine of salt is an ion, not a gas. but you can't just have unbonded ions floating around unless it is in water or dissolved in something similar.

Me thinks that they just have some other crap in the salt.