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      Table salt, cooking salt or table salt

      Table salt is the salt par excellence! Salty is the only flavour that cannot be produced artificially. If something tastes salty, it has salt in it. Salt awakens the flavour, as curing salt it preserves food, salt was and is used in all cultures for a variety of medicinal purposes: Salt production and the salt trade have accompanied the history of civilisation since ancient times.

      Pliny the Elder wrote in his Natural History in the first century AD: "There is nothing better for the whole human body than salt and the sun."

      Salt burn

      Salt was even used to produce waterproof, flavourless stoneware: Salt firing is the name given to the process in which stoneware was glazed with salt. Salt-glazed stoneware was mainly used as a storage container for food - until the invention of the refrigerator.

      Salt glaze is extremely robust, its surface is so hard that it cannot even be scratched with steel. Although salt was also used in a variety of ways in ancient and medieval alchemy, its use as table salt and pickling salt predominated by far.

      Salt in industry

      This changed with industrial glass production, which required soda as a raw material - namely at the moment when natural soda sources could no longer meet the demand. In the eighteenth century, a process was developed to produce soda on the basis of common salt. Salt production was ramped up and large-scale mining began - which increased even further in the nineteenth century with the demand for salt as a basis for plastics production (chlorine production).

      Today, only three per cent of the salt mined in Germany is actually consumed. The rest is used as a raw material for industry, as industrial salt and as de-icing salt. This is why salt is comparatively cheap today, as a residual product of industrial production, so to speak.

      The myth of white gold

      Incidentally, it is a myth that salt was as expensive as gold in ancient times. Salt was indeed an expensive commodity - but in the sixteenth century, for example, it was cheaper than saffron, cloves or pepper. And as far as antiquity is concerned: if salt had been as valuable as gold, it would certainly not have been fed to livestock. Salt was never "white gold", as is now often claimed - that was porcelain. The Saxon Elector Augustus the Strong commissioned the alchemist Johann Friedrich Böttger to search for a method of producing gold. Although Böttger did not succeed, he invented porcelain, independently of the Chinese, which proved to be a huge export hit for Saxony.

      Indus salt

      And the Indian salt? Even ancient Indian scholars recognised the quality of saindhava lavana. They praised it as the best of all salts because, unlike sea salt, it generated less heat and was therefore tolerated by all constitutional types. The basic types mentioned in Ayurveda, namely the slime(Kapha type), the bile(Pitta type) and the wind(Vata type), tolerate Indian salt equally well. It is available as red, white and clear salt (crystal salt).

      The registered trade mark Indusal recognises the historical name as well as the geographical origin of the salt.

      Red salt

      We offer red salt as fine salt for the salt shaker and as coarse salt for cooking or for the salt mill, as well as in three to five centimetre chunks that are suitable for making a brine or for crushing in a mortar. The finer the grain size, the lighter the salt appears due to the refraction of light.

      Clear salt

      Our clear salt is something very special: clear salt is the purest of these types of salt, it is much rarer and therefore the most precious. An analysis we commissioned (GDMS) revealed a purity of 99.98 per cent by weight. That's why we only offer this treasure in a single form: in extra-coarse crystals, sharp-edged, cubed and transparent pieces measuring two to four centimetres.

      Salt during sport

      Incidentally, salt is an important companion for mountaineering, marathons, triathlons and other endurance sports. A lump of salt to lick prevents salt loss, one of the most common causes of a drop in performance during sport.

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