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Himalayan salt

Himalayan salt lamp
Himalayan salt is a marketing term for rock salt from Pakistan, which began being sold by various companies in Europe, North America, and Australia in the early 21st century. It is mined in the Khewra Salt Mines, the second largest salt mine in the world, located in Khewra, Jhelum District, Punjab, Pakistan, about 160 kilometres from Islamabad and 260 kilometres from Lahore, and in the foothills of the Salt Range.
The salt sometimes comes out in a reddish or pink color, with some crystals having an off-white to transparent color. It is commonly used for cooking similar to regular table salt, brine, and bath products.
Generally, Himalayan salt are used in the same way as ordinary table salt. They are used as bath-salts, as well as for culinary purposes. More recently, large crystal rocks are also used as Salt lamps.
Mineral composition
In 2003 the Bavarian consumer protection agency Bayerisches Landesamt f Gesundheit und Lebensmittelsicherheit analyzed 15 specimens of Himalaya salt sold in Germany and could detect a total of 10 different minerals: sodium and chloride (98%) and other minerals. This agency states that these salts are coming from Pakistan and may, as every salt used in the kitchen, be harmful in the case of arterial Hypertension [1]. German public television broadcaster ZDF presented the analyzed chemical composition of Himalaya-salt made by mineralogist Michael Siemann of the technical university of Clausthal (TU Clausthal Germany) who states that the specimen contained 95-96% sodiumchloride and 10 different minerals. 3% was a polyhalite contamination (known as gypsum) [2].
The book titled ater and Salt, The Essence of Life, by Barbara Hendel and Peter Ferreira (in reality German businessman and Himalaya-salt seller Peter Druf [3]), show a different analysis of the chemical composition of Himalayan salts in their own book, referencing a non-existent Himalaya Institute of Biophysical Research, Las Vegas [4].
See also
Dead Sea salt
References
^ statement Bayerisches Landesamt f Gesundheit und Lebensmittelsicherheit in 2003
^ ZDF.de - Teure Wze aus dem Himalaya
^ Peter Ferreira - EsoWatch
^ India Salt
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