Use Cooking Salt Instead of Ice Melting Salt: 'Hayastani Hanrapetutyun'

“We won’t uncover a secret if we say that our consumer, to put it mildly, is not well-informed. Why do we say mildly? Because there are cases when the issue is not social at all. For example, the use of salt. For years, experts have pointed out that there is cooking salt and technical salt. And technical salt should not be used in food. Technical salt is usually used in the production of paper and laundry detergents. In winter, technical salt is applied on icy roads.

Now, if we are using not cooking salt, but technical salt in our food, then we are either uneducated, oblivious to the constant alarms, overly discerning, ignoring our health for a few drams, or have placed our bodies in the same context as icy roads. And this is despite the fact that it has been noted that the use of technical salt is dangerous for health. It is not iodized, as required by government regulations, and contains undissolved particles. Meanwhile, we could be using cooking salt, which is environmentally clean, contains no chemical additives and lacks even anti-caking agents.

Recently, the food safety inspection body under the government conducted checks in the cooking salt market. What picture has emerged and what can the other side of the medal reveal?” Read the full article in today’s newspaper.