The most reputable organic-certification group in Europe, "Nature et Progrés," has given its highest certificate of quality and merit to our Celtic Ocean products: Light Grey Celtic and Fine Ground Celtic Sea Salt.
At The Life Tree, we seek the same unique standards of quality and character in any and all products we provide. The French awards mentioned above guarantee that we import only the highest quality food and table salts.
Celtic Sea Salt vs. Refined Salt Domestic salt refiners cannot economically develop a production method that will yield clean whole food salt. The market for edible salt is too small when compared with huge industrial consumption. The trace elements, such as magnesium, bromine, and sulfur, are all extracted from Sea Salt by those refiners since they are a great source of profit for international big business. After being bulldozed, Mexico's crude salt is shipped in bulk to Japan where it is refined by electrolysis and used in miso, soy sauce, and other products. Then it is shipped back to the U.S. A federal law forbids any Japanese firm or individual from making its own salt, so the refining and sale of salt is a government monopoly, monitored by Japan's Salt and Tobacco Bureau. Their entire supply of salt is imported and always highly refined. In order to boost the nutrient content, the refined salt is artificially loaded with specific minerals in order to reconstitute it. While this does not make natural salt, it does improve the composition of the refined salt. We compare this to enriched white flour. Though minerals are added after the refining process, it is better to consume the natural product, taking advantage of all the nutrients the wheat or salt has to offer from the beginning.
A smaller amount of this Mexican crude salt is purchased by Californian businesses. They boil and recrystallize it into a totally demineralized white salt which is often sold through natural and macrobiotic food distributors who give it the label "Balanced Mineral Salt." Boiling crude salt, however, removes most of its precious trace elements. This deficiency has been recognized as the primary cause of demineralization and malabsorption.
Watch out for these additives: Ferrocyanide, yellow prussiate of soda, tri-calcium phosphate, aluminocalcium silicate and sodium aluminosilicate. These additives are all anti-caking agents and prevent salt from mixing with water, acting naturally in the human body and from performing its important functions.
