Were you aware that every day you ingest a toxin in your table salt?
Common salt contains monosodium glutamate, a toxin that produces extra appetite and multiple illnesses. With fleur de sel you can avoid it.
How to know is the salt I use contains the toxin monosodium glutamate?
It is very simple, if your salt is iodized or has been subjected to a chemical process, be certain that it contains it, given that monosodium glutamate is an additive that boosts flavor and besides being found in salt, ready to go soups, chips, sauces, dressings, frozen meals, and salts that are labeled as low in sodium; plus, it is added to canned food to removed the metal like flavour and to soften meat.
Recent research has concluded that ingesting monosodium glutamate increases appetite up to 40% which also makes you experience a sense of dependence to continue eating meals with this toxin. Besides, endless side effects have been found and among them are headaches, migraines, depression, muscular spasms, nauseas, allergies and cardiac irregularities. Considering how often this is in our food, no wonder so many of this illnesses are so common.
How can we avoid this toxin?
It is very simple; we just need to avoid processed food that has it as an ingredient. The tricky part is that it also labeled as E621, soy concentrate, texturized protein, gelatin, and yeast nutrient). Besides that, we just need to switch the industrialized salt with fleur de sel. Remember that fleur de sel is never subjected to a chemical process and it has multiple benefits for your health due to its high content of essential minerals that is even recommended for people who have hypertension and diabetes.
LN. Nallely De Luna Limón
Egresada del Centro Universitario de Ciencias de la Salud
Bibliography:
www.ecoosfera.com/2013/10/que-es-y-por-que-debemos-evitar-el-glutamato-monosodico/ consultado el 10 de Octubre del 2015.
Geha RS et al. Multicenter, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multiple challenge evaluation of reported reactions to monsosodium glutamate.J.Allergy Clin. Immunol., 2000,106;973-980
http://www.habitos.mx/recetas-2/sal-de-mar-vs-sal-refinadaprocesada/ consultado el 13 de Octubre del 2015.
