Is there any significant difference in chemical composition between "Sea salt" and ordinary table salt?

Question

I mean they both come from evaporated sea water. Was the composition of the sea any different 50 million years ago?

Answer 1

They are both NaCl but "sea salt" often is unrefined so it maintains a more irregular texture and many of the trace elements found in the water are not removed from the salt making it have a more unique flavor.

Answer 2

I doubt it--sodium chloride is sodium chloride. The only difference I can see is that foolish people pay extra for salt that is mixed with particles of the excrement and decayed bodies of the countless billions of sea creatures who have pooped and died in the oceans for the last several hundred million years. Yum!

Answer 3

People who stress over such a tiny thing like this AGGhhhh!

I don't  remember the details..

http://www.mortonsalt.com/



Kosher and table salt  and canning salt  are the same except for the grain size

Kosher is large and used to help draw the blood out of the meats,..a hangover from the concepts of the pagan blood sacrifices

canning has no additives like Iodine and the agents to keep it from clumping

Like I said just the name Kosher makes it expensive

and IT is still sodium chloride..

salt that are mined are from inland seas  ??? I forgot ..  

Answer 4

"Sea Salt" will contain all of those bits and pieces we chuck in there/pour in there and those dead bits of those that live in there which at first will dissolve in water, only to become crystalline when dried off.

"Table Salt" tends to be mined (from mines in Cheshire for instance) and although tending to be cleaner and less full of impurities has things added to stop it 'lumping' and thus make it "pourable" all the time.

Answer 5

Change is constant and perpetual with time being its unknown to us motive force. Now, if you really want to know the difference between salts and learn of their natural and or chemical differences, the only thing you need to do is to Google them.

Have fun

NDS

Answer 6

Sea salt contains NaCl, as well as fish poo and urine and pollutants etc, that give it its unique taste!