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New Packaging, Same Real Salt

If you’ve seen Real Salt on a store shelf lately, you may have noticed our new labels and packaging.  Several of you have noticed and called or emailed to ask if the changed packaging means a changed product.  It doesn’t.  Real Salt didn’t change. The unit sizes didn’t change. The company hasn’t changed. Only the [...]
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Are your facts real?

As our name implies, Real Salt is, well, real.  When you eat Real Salt you know you’re getting salt exactly as nature made it–no minerals stripped out, nothing added, no gimmicks.  We stick with what’s real, and you get a healthy, natural salt you can trust. Sticking with what’s real is a great way to [...]
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Real Salt and Radiation

Real Salt users like knowing that our product comes from an ancient sea bed, because we can all see the value of eating sea salt from a deposit left long before humans were around to pollute the water with chemicals and gushing oil. But every now and again, we hear from a customer wondering whether [...]
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Wait, is that sand in my Real Salt??

Most weekends we treat our kids to waffles using grandma’s old recipe. One Sunday, my visiting niece watched us mixing up the batter and asked, “Why is your flour dirty?” It took a second to realize that she wasn’t used to seeing our freshly-ground wheat flour, and compared to her family’s bleached white flour, ours [...]
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Does Real Salt have the iodine we need?

If you had been on a certain bridge in Sarajevo in late June of 1914, you might have been unfortunate enough to witness the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. If you were particularly savvy, you might have predicted that the assassination would change the world forever–it was the spark that ignited the first world war–but [...]
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Comparing Real Salt to Himalayan or Celtic

We’re going to do something today most companies don’t like to do: we’re going to say nice things about the competition. No, that doesn’t mean we’re going to be kind to that bitter, chemically treated white table salt you still find in far too many kitchens, because if you understand the health benefits of Real [...]
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Is salt really bad for me?

It’s been decades since we started hearing about salt’s damaging effects on our bodies, and it seems salt is only getting less popular as time goes by. Recently, state senators in New York flirted with legislation that would even make it illegal for restaurants to salt their food, treating salt as if it were on [...]
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Is Real Salt different than other sea salts?

Absolutely! In addition to  its unique protection from pollutants in today’s oceans, Real Salt won Best of Show in a professional taste test of top gourmet natural salts. But you don’t have to take our word for it — experience the Real Salt® difference yourself! Take the Real Salt taste test…First taste Real Salt, then [...]
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Is Real Salt sea salt?

Real Salt is nature’s first sea salt.  During the earth’s Jurassic era, a sea covered much of what is now North America. Over time the water in this sea evaporated, leaving the salt in a vast deposit in central Utah. Eventually a range of volcanoes erupted around the ancient seabed, sealing the salt and trace [...]
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Isn’t Real Salt more expensive?

Even when used liberally, a family of four will likely use only one 26 oz. pouch of Real Salt® every five to six months. So actually, the daily cost of Real Salt® is less than a penny. Given the high cost of food these days and the fact that salt is the primary ingredient responsible [...]
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