A true salt of the earth---HimalaSalt

April 23, 7:02 PMOrganic Food ExaminerNatalie Rotunda

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‘Industrial waste.’ That’s what Melissa Kushi, president, founder, and CEO of Sustainable Sourcing, LLC, calls table salt. If that sounds drastic, consider her reason: Processors remove the mineral content, and sell it to other industries. What’s left behind, the wastes, are packaged and sold to the public. It’s not healthy. “The human body needs the right balance of salts, and table salt, even sea salt, doesn’t get the job done,” she says.

However, salt happens to be essential for life. To obtain nutrient-giving, healthy salt, it’s all in knowing where to find it---and trusting the waters from which it’s harvested.

Melissa has located a source, perhaps the best on earth---a pristine river in the Himalayas. She named the pale pink salt HimalaSalt™. Unlike the depleted variety in regular use, this salt is loaded with 80-plus trace minerals. She makes the ethically-sourced salts available to consumers, and chefs who love the salt, through Amazon, Whole Foods, and her website.

Sea salt has been the salt of choice for health-minded cooks, but it, too, is mined from polluted waters, waters into which industrial chemicals have drained---fertilizers, herbicides, pesticides---used on farmland to control weeds and hasten crop growth. Salts mined from these waters occupy the same polluted waters that fish live in.

“Consumer culture is harming the planet, yet I know it can also help save it,” Melissa says.

In the macrobiotics classes Melissa taught, she promoted sea salt to her students. Eventually, as she gained a greater knowledge of the processes, she’d felt guilty about using and promoting it. “With today’s water quality, you don’t know what you’re getting. Salt coming from polluted waters is not good to eat.” Like the fish who swim in the mercury and lead-laden waters. “It’s the same water.”

HimalaSalt™ contains rich essential nutrients that he body needs. The totally sustainable product comes in packaging that has been certified by the Sustainable Forestry Initiative, and the shrink-wrap is 100% certified compostable.

HimalaSalt™ is all of these...and delicious-tasting, as well:

   ...a healthy alkaline source
   ...a high quality, pure mineral salt that works on the electrical system and the brain, to help it properly fire up
   ...contains no anti-caking or flow agents (that contain aluminum)
   ...is free of impurities
   ...is never heat-treated
   ...is Kosher and Green-e Certified 

“When you eat it,” Melissa says, “the body knows what to do with it. Sea salt---if you know what the water source is, and if it’s unrefined, is okay. I used Celtic sea salt. When I started to investigate the water quality, I was shocked, and threw it out.

“HimalaSalt™ gets the body fluids flowing where they need to be.”