What type of salt do you use?

It turns out that there has so many different salt in the world I think what we usually use is table salt which is manmade;sea salt is natural,Yeah?But I don't know about rock salt,is it edible?Maybe it can only be used into ornamental,Yeah?

you have a MAID? WOW! I don't have much trouble with salt, but I'm not much of a salt user, and my blood pressure is good. I use plain old salt because I mostly use it to cook with, there are a few things I like with salt, but I can probably count them on both hands, maybe one...

Hi dear! We do not use rock salt because it needs to be grinded and we are always short of time......LOL!We normally use Tata salt, which I suppose is sea salt and we have been using it for years together. It is better to restrict salt's intake for the goodness of our health, I believe.

I did not know that one salt could be any better for you than the other. I always use table salt for cooking but I have heard that sea salt does taste very nice. I have never tried sea salt so I don't know whether it tastes any better than regualr table salt, but I have no idea that it is better for anyones health.

we use branded Salt Tata salt with iodine

I like using iodised salt for my cooking. Almost everything nowadays..have bad side effects in our body...from old products to the new one...people talking about it all the time. I think more on how i can make the food taste better and not thinking about side effects.

Hi sritrinity, Ho nice to have your own maid, wish I had one, I normally just have table salt and don't believe anything about salt being not good for you, you need certain amount of salt in your body but not too much, as you sweat, you are loosing salt from your body so you need to replace it, only a small amout, beside in most food today, the are salt in them. Tamara

Hi sritrinity! I don't really use salt much at all. It is really bad for my health. I have high blood pressure and it has been many years since I have stopped using salt for cooking or for even adding to my food at the table! I just use regular idodized table salt for company if they want to use any to add to their food. My boyfriend uses alot of salt so I always have it in the shaker for the table. I am very careful of buying already prepared foods with high sodium counts too!

I used commercialized fine grain salt with iodized or iron fortified. It is easily to put whole cooking or mixing with salad. as a sprinkler in the dishes..

Hi There, we do use salt at our home. Mostly this salt is from reputed company such as TATA salt. It is one of the longest ever brand in salt for us in India.

hi there, i just don't know this thing, i thought there are only 2 salts in the world.. but then they are plenty of them in the whole wide world.. thank you for this topic and now i learned a lot of salts.. i used iodized salt.! janebeth.

I like to use Iodize salt. I can be certified that it is safe to use and being fortified give me the nutrients that my body needs. Too much salt is bad for our health.

Salt raises your blood pressure, which can cause strokes and heart attacks. I use sea salt. It taste the same as table salt. You just have to grind it instead of sprinkling it on your food.

I do only know about two kinds of salt. The rock salt and the fine iodized salt. Health wise, the fine iodized salt is best and it's almost the kind of salt being used in every household in the Philippines. Although I know there are still some people using rock salt because it is cheaper in the market.

It is kind of expensive to buy it and very rare to get one. It usually is sold in specialty store and not in regular stores in my place. What we usually use are the commercial rock salts or at times the iodized salts that are commonly available salts in the market.

Since I have high blood pressure I am not supposed to have salt. Salt makes you retain fluids and is not good for your arteries. Many processed foods have more salt in them than we need. The normal amount for salt intake in a day is 1400 mg. Some fast food, or ham, and other foods have twice that much. Recently some companies have redesigned their foods by cutting down the amount of salt used in preparation or by going to sea salt which is healthier than table salt. Anyone who has a history of blood pressure problems or heart disease should not have salt in their diets. Salt occurs naturally in many things, we dont need to add more. Of course many of us think our food it made tastier by adding salt to it. I had to learn to eat food without salt many years ago. It took a while to get used to it, but I don't miss it and when I eat something over salted I hate it.I would rather not use it at all, but since I live with my daughter and her family, she buys mostly cheap foods which have salt.

We rarely use salt, but when we do we use sea-salt. I have read that sea-salt is better than other salts, but I don't know how correct that is. Your Himalayan salt sounds very interesting, and I imagine that it is better for your health, I think I would find a problem in having to grind it down every time. - Derek

what is that himalayan salt. does it really come from the himalayas. where do you buy that. i love anything that is unique. hmm. i would love to buy that too. have not heard of any pink salt. i would be happy to boast it around here if i get to buy one. anyways, yes salt has been blamed for many diseases. and it is good to limit our salt intake. i used to buy every time table salt. but since the government a decade ago promoted iodized salt to prevent some disease i rarely use now this table salt. but from time to time i still use it though. but i am not more used to iodized salt. before i don't like the taste of iodized salt. but now i have adopted to its taste and i like it now better than any salt around. but i still avoid using salt and i avoid any food that has too much salt like junk foods and fast food burgers and etc.

Hmmm, for people with high blood pressure like my dad for example, he is not allowed (or mostly not allowed, he's allowed a little bit heheh) to eat salty food. For those who are trying to lose weight, they are advised not to use much because it can lead to water retention. But, I think salt used sensibly and in proper moderation is good for healthy people. At home, we use both rock salt and iodized salt.

Anything in excess is not good - may be that is why people say salt is not good when taken in excess quantity! We use table salt at home and when we go to our native (a village turned city) they add rock salt which gives a differnt flavor to the food. Salt is one of the main ingredients in our food but excess of salt evaporates the water content in our body leading to dehydration. May be this is why people advice not to take excess quantity of salt.