Himalayan salt is a rock salt or halite from the Punjab region of Pakistan, near the Himalayas, but falsified as coming from the Himalayas. Many health claims have been made about himalayan salt, but there is no scientific evidence to prove this claim.
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Histori
Although the salt is sometimes marketed as "Jurassic Sea Salt", this salt deposit comes from a sea gift during the Permian era about 250 million years ago and the Cretaceous era about 105 million years ago. This sea becomes landlocked and evaporates, leaving solid sediment of salt, colored by common pink microorganisms that live in it. For the next several hundred million years, the savings ended on the continental plate boundary, and were pushed into the mountains of Pakistan.
The concentration of salt near Khewra, Punjab, is said to have been discovered around 326 BC when the troops headed by Alexander the Great stopped to rest there and saw their horses licking the salt rock. Salt may have been mined there since then, but the first record of mining comes from the Janjua people in the 1200s.
Himalayan salt is mostly mined at the Khewra Salt Mine in Khewra, Jhelum District, Punjab, located in the foothills of the Salt Range hill system in Punjab province on the Indo-Gangetic Plain of Pakistan. Located about 310 km (190 million) from the Himalayas, 260 km (160 mi) from Lahore, and 298 km (185 mi) from Amritsar, India.
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Mineral composition
Himalayan salts are chemically similar to table salt plus mineral impurities including chromium, iron, zinc, tin, and copper. Some of the mined salt in the Himalayas is not suitable for use as food or industry without purification, because of this impurities.
Some salt crystals from the Himalayas have an off-white color to transparent, while the impurities in some of the saline veins give a pink, reddish, or red bit color.
Usage
Himalayan salt is used to flavor food. There is no evidence that it is healthier than using regular table salt.
Salt blocks are also used as serving plates, baking stones, and griddles.
The salt lamp is made up of large salt crystals, often stained, and illuminated with electric light or wax inside. Many health claims have been made regarding the object of salt, but there is no scientific evidence to support this claim.
Salt is also sold in the form of flat "stone panels" used to decorate the salt chamber.
See also
- List of edible salt
- List of topics that are characterized as pseudoscience
References
External links
- "Video: Himalayan Salt Cutting Process". People's Market via YouTube. February 25, 2015.
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