{"id":109286,"date":"2014-03-09T17:22:48","date_gmt":"2014-03-09T17:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=109286"},"modified":"2014-03-09T17:22:48","modified_gmt":"2014-03-09T17:22:48","slug":"gmo-sugar-salt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/gmo-sugar-salt\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Is There GMO Sugar In Salt?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Great April Fools\u2019 Day prank idea: Switch up your loved ones\u2019 sugar with salt. When they spit out their coffee and comment on the saltiness you can insist that it\u2019s really sugar and that there\u2019s nothing wrong, giving the prank a twisted flair.<\/p>\n<p>But you\u2019d be right \u2014 because there\u2019s friggin\u2019 GMO sugar in salt!<\/p>\n<p>This applies to ingredients found in iodized table salt, and should concern people who are serious about allergy-inducing ingredients or who are seeking a different eating style.<\/p>\n<p>While getting a natural allergy treatment for sugar I had to avoid it completely for 25 hours. At least I can flavor food with salt, I said, but was told to check the label. Haha \u2014 okay \u2014 whatever. But no, it\u2019s true \u2014 there was sugar!<\/p>\n<p>There are a few reasons why sugar or corn-based dextrose is added to salt.<\/p>\n<p>Sally Fallon explains in\u00a0<a title=\"Nourishing Traditions\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Nourishing-Traditions-Challenges-Politically-Dictocrats\/dp\/0967089735\/ref=as_li_tf_sw?&amp;linkCode=wsw&amp;tag=permacultucom-20\" target=\"_blank\">Nourishing Traditions<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Most discussions of salt ignore the issue of salt processing. Few people realize that our salt \u2014 like our sugar, flour and vegetable oils \u2014 is highly refined; it is the product of a chemical and high-temperature industrial process that removes all the valuable magnesium salts as well as trace minerals naturally occurring in the sea. To keep salt dry, salt refiners adulterate this \u201cpure\u201d product with several harmful additives, including aluminum compounds. To replace the natural iodine salts that are removed during processing, potassium iodide is added in amounts that can be toxic.\u00a0<b>To stabilize the volatile iodine compound, processors add dextrose which turns the iodized salt a purplish color.\u00a0<\/b>A bleaching agent is then necessary to restore whiteness to the salt\u2026 Even most so-called sea salt is produced by industrial methods. [emphasis added]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Many sources confirm that sugar or dextrose is added at 0.04 percent or 40 milligrams per 100 grams of salt to stabilize the potassium iodide, but are the anti-caking agents and added sugars worth the hassle of added iodine in salt? You decide. But to the person who can go into anaphylaxis from corn ingredients or those trying to avoid sugars and GMOs \u2014 it is not worth it.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesleuthjournal.com\/gmo-sugar-salt\/#\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great April Fools\u2019 Day prank idea: Switch up your loved ones\u2019 sugar with salt. When they spit out their coffee and comment on the saltiness you can insist that it\u2019s really sugar and that there\u2019s nothing wrong, giving the prank a twisted flair. But you\u2019d be right \u2014 because there\u2019s friggin\u2019 GMO sugar in salt! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":109287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-109286","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}