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Pink Salt
Pink salt may refer to: * Any salt that is pink in color * Himalayan salt, a form of salt used in cooking or in bath products * Alaea salt, an unrefined Hawaiian sea salt used in cooking or in rituals * Curing salt A cure is a completely effective treatment for a disease. Cure or The Cure, or variants, may also refer to: Arts, entertainment and media Film * Cure (film), ''Cure'' (film), a 1997 film directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa * The Cure (1917 film), ''Th ..., containing sodium nitrite and sodium chloride, used in the curing of meats * , a derivative of tin(IV) chloride {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salt
In common usage, salt is a mineral composed primarily of sodium chloride (NaCl). When used in food, especially in granulated form, it is more formally called table salt. In the form of a natural crystalline mineral, salt is also known as rock salt or halite. Salt is essential for life in general (being the source of the essential dietary minerals sodium and chlorine), and saltiness is one of the basic human tastes. Salt is one of the oldest and most ubiquitous food seasonings, and is known to uniformly improve the taste perception of food. Salting, brining, and pickling are ancient and important methods of food preservation. Some of the earliest evidence of salt processing dates to around 6000 BC, when people living in the area of present-day Romania boiled spring water to extract salts; a salt works in China dates to approximately the same period. Salt was prized by the ancient Hebrews, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Hittites, Egyptians, and Indians. Salt became a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Himalayan Salt
Himalayan salt is rock salt (halite) mined from the Punjab, Pakistan, Punjab region of Pakistan. The salt, which often has a pinkish tint due to trace minerals, is primarily used as a food additive to replace Salt#Edible salt, refined table salt but is also used for cooking and food presentation, decorative lamps, and spa treatments. The product is often promoted with unsupported claims that it health claim, has health benefits. Geology Himalayan salt is mined from the Salt Range mountains, the southern edge of a Fold and thrust belt, fold-and-thrust belt that underlies the Pothohar Plateau south of the Himalayas in Pakistan. Himalayan salt comes from a thick layer of Ediacaran to early Cambrian evaporites of the ''Salt Range Formation''. This geological formation consists of crystalline halite intercalated with potash salts, overlain by gypsiferous marl and interlayered with beds of gypsum and Dolomite (rock), dolomite with infrequent seams of oil shale that accumulated between ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alaea Salt
Alaea salt, alternatively referred to as Hawaiian red salt, is an unrefined sea salt that has been mixed with an iron oxide rich volcanic clay called ''alaea'', which gives the seasoning its characteristic brick red color. It is part of Native Hawaiian cuisine and is used in traditional dishes such as kalua pig, poke, and pipikaula (Hawaiian jerky). It was also traditionally used to cleanse, purify and bless tools, canoes, homes and temples. Once exported to the Pacific Northwest to cure salmon, it saw a resurgence in popularity late in the 20th century in fusion style cuisine of Hawaii both on Islands and beyond. History ''Alaea'', a water-soluble colloidal ocherous earth, was used for coloring salt, which in turn was traditionally used by Hawaiians to cleanse, purify and bless tools, canoes, homes and temples. Alaea salt is also used in several native Hawaiian dishes kalua pig, poke, and pipikaula (Hawaiian jerky). In the 19th century Hawaiians began producing large amou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curing Salt
A cure is a completely effective treatment for a disease. Cure or The Cure, or variants, may also refer to: Arts, entertainment and media Film * Cure (film), ''Cure'' (film), a 1997 film directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa * The Cure (1917 film), ''The Cure'' (1917 film), a short film starring Charlie Chaplin * The Cure (1995 film), ''The Cure'' (1995 film), a drama starring Brad Renfro and Joseph Mazzello * The Cure (2014 film), ''The Cure'' (2014 film), a thriller starring Antonia Prebble and Daniel Lissing * ''The Cure'' (2019), a British television docudrama about Julie Bailey starring Siân Brooke * ''The Cured'' (2017), an Irish horror film * Cured (film), ''Cured'' (film), a 2020 American documentary film Literature * ''The Cure'', a 1946 novella by Lewis Padgett * ''The Cure'', a 1994 novel by Carlo Gébler * ''The Cure'', a 1999 novel by Sonia Levitin * ''The Cure'', a 2003 novel by Jack D. Hunter * ''Cure'', a 2010 novel by Robin Cook (American novelist), Robin Cook * ''The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
