Celtic Sea Salt® from Selina Naturally provides Chicaoji’s salt.
I lifted the following text from their web site. I provide the links below for your convenience as they have information pertinent to your well-being.
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“Selina Naturally® Celtic Sea Salt® Brand salt is authentic, unprocessed whole salt from pristine coastal regions. Our Celtic Sea Salt® is certified organic by Nature and Progres, the highest level of certification allowed.
Celtic Sea Salt® Brand is doctor recommended, more nutritious than table salt, quality certified, and has exquisite taste. Use Celtic Sea Salt® Brand for all your cooking and seasoning needs, to enrich the taste of your foods while adding vital nutrients to your diet.
View a sea salt mineral comparison chart here
View our Celtic Sea Salt® Brand Brochure
View our Celtic Sea Salt® Mineral Analysis
Doctor Recommended • Lower in Sodium • Additive Free • Sustainably Harvested • Exquisite Taste
• Certified Kosher”
Now this is from their brochure:
Sea Salt contains no anti-caking agents, bleaching agents, or other additives. It contains a natural balance of minerals and trace elements and is unmatched in flavor. It is a beneficial addition to most diets. The composition of our blood plasma, lymphatic fluid and extra-cellular fluid all mirror the chemical balance of the the ocean water from which it is derived. The human body uses the minerals & trace elements in Celtic Sea Salt to create electrolytes, maintaining these “internal oceans” which are vita to the proper functioning of every system in the body.
OK that’s the end of their web site blurb. Here’s mine.
Celtic Sea Salt comes from an area off the west coast of France on a similar latitude as the Cote d’Azure or Riviera but on the Atlantic side. The folks who do it are called paludiers. The sea water is let into clay pans on each high tide and the wind and sun evaporate the water. They use wooden paddles to scrape up the salt as it accumulates. The resulting salt contains all sorts of goodies absent in typical table salt, sodium chloride. When folks talk about salt being bad for you they are generally talking about sodium chloride.
When I started getting serious about making Chicaoji as good as I could I consulted knowledgeable people in my community. One day on a ferry ride to the mainland I was sitting around with some fellow Lopez Islanders chatting about stuff. I mentioned that I was looking for an excellent salt for this new sauce I was composing. As luck would have it, my friend Nancy was sitting right there and she said Celtic Sea Salt right off the bat. I asked her why this was so and how she knew it. Come to find out she had a salt guru some decades back who did his sacred work and so forth using salt. Go figure.
The take-away message from the salt guru (never did catch the name) was that Celtic Sea Salt was the good stuff. She added that anyone knowing their salt who read on the label that I included Celtic Sea Salt in my sauce would know without looking at any other of the ingredients that I cared for the quality of my offering. Well, I bought some and liked it. I looked it up on the internet from several angles and found it ranks with the best of sea salts. I think it adds a distinctive characteristic to Chicaoji. You consume Celtic Sea Salt and all the benefit that entails with every drop of Chicaoji.
Selina Naturally sells all sorts of things that are good for you in addition to salt. I highly suggest you check out their web site for something to benefit your family. I have been interacting with these folks for about 3 years and they have always done right by me. Check them out at www.selinanaturally.com then come back and comment on the Chicaoji blog.