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Sea Salt, Lower Sodium?
You are correct in that "normal" sea salt has similar sodium content as table (mined) salt. The difference in the sodium content is probably just 1% owing to that evaporated sea water has other trace minerals besides sodium chloride (if the sea salt is unrefined seasalt). However, a few companies have "naturally" refined sea salt into having less sodium chloride by making up the difference with potassium chloride and magnesium chloride. Therefore for a given equivalent mass of table salt versus their "special" sea salt one out of every two crystals will be potassium or magnesium chloride instead of sodium chloride. It is a patented process apparently. I'm sure they could have done the same process on mined salt but sea salt imparts a more "natural/gourmet/healthy" connotation. I haven't tasted the "special" sea salt yet so I can't judge on taste but I expect it to be more in line with the salt substitutes which have potassium chloride added to regular salt. Apparently Campbell's wasn't lying in their soup commercials. See http://www.oceansflavor.com and http://www.soloseasalt.com for more details.
