Pink Himalayan salt, nutritionists reveal the bluff: "Impure and costs twice as much."
It is a question of color, which pleases and which attracts, but the pink salt of the Himalayas does not have many beneficial properties for health. The result of a skillful commercial operation is friend or foe of health precisely like the other salts, with the difference that it is impure and costs twice as much. To dispel one of the many clichés at the table is the nutritionist Andrea Ghiselli, director of the Crea-Food and Nutrition Research Center, who does not hesitate to talk about actual fake news for one of the most excellent products of the moment. However, a fake has become a social phenomenon. According to the US magazine Atlantic, more than 70,000 Instagram photos have #pinksalt as the hashtag and are constantly growing, thanks also to the push of chefs and bloggers of all kinds. At the same time, books dedicated to the properties of this ancient Asian salt abound. and objects such as lamps. "This salt owes its color to impurities of some minerals such as iron, zi...