Can you use the salt from the ocean on your food?

Question

I live on the Gulf of Mexico. Could I evaporate the salt out of the water and use it?

Answer 1

unless you purify it.

Answer 2

humanity has been using salt from the ocean for ages

Answer 3

ya - it's labelled

SEA SALT

it's available all over the world, and I live next to one of the producers in the southern San Diego Bay

Answer 4

NO= IT'D MAKE YOU SICK.

Answer 5

If your living on the Gulf of Mexico, the level of contaminates would be identical as are in the ocean.  And you don't have to "evaporate the salt out of the water.."  Just go to the store, and by sea salt.  It should be near table salt and kosher salt.

Answer 6

Depends on the pollution present in the ocean water and how well you are able to purify the salt.

Best to know what you're doing and where you're getting your sea water from.

Answer 7

You can buy Sea Salt in the grocery store.

Answer 8

NO AS WE KNOW THAT MARINE WATER IS POLLUTED TO THE MAXIMUM IT IS UNSAFE TO USE THE SALT DIRECTLY.....  AND IODINE WILL ALSO BE MISSING WHICH IS A VERY IMPORTANT MACRO VITAMIN AND ITS ONLY SOURCE IS SALT. SO PLEASE USE THE REFINED IODIZED SALT FOR A GOOD HEALTH....

Answer 9

No and you should not use it.

Salt for food proposes should be of edible quality i.e free from toxic elements.

Salt prepared from sea water need to be purified before it should be used.

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