/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Shut up retard

t. Morton Salt Co

But the other /pol/tard said we're all iodine deficient and it's because of Jews subverting our nutrition to keep us dumb and enslaved

>>17731078
Yes

potassium iodide is not ionised sodium chloride

KI != NaCl

>>17731067
iodized salt is fine

>>17731067
i want to lick the Morton girl's salty cunt and asshole

>>17732270
Based

>>17731067
Iodizing salt was maybe the biggest mass health gain for the least amount of effort and expenditure man ever made.
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/315081.php
>Although pink Himalayan salt may naturally contain some iodine, it most likely contains less iodine than iodized salt. Therefore, those who have iodine deficiency or are at risk of deficiency may need to source iodine elsewhere if using pink salt instead of table salt.
http://www.pathologyoutlines.com/topic/thyroidendemicgoiter.html
>Over 1/3 of world population live in iodine deficient area; 1.6 billion are at risk of iodine deficiency; 655 million have goiter
>inb4 you're covered by tap water:
http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/dwq/chemicals/iodine.pdf
>The mean concentration of total iodine in drinking-water in the USA is 4 µg/litre and the maximum concentration is 18 µg/litre.
https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Iodine-Consumer/
>How much iodine do I need?
>Adults - 150 mcg
>Am I getting enough iodine?
>Certain groups of people are more likely than others to have trouble getting enough iodine:
>People who do not use iodized salt.
>Adding iodine to salt is the most widely used strategy to control iodine deficiency.
>inb4 this is just some modern meme and not a problem ancient people had:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3169859/
>Goiter has always been a disease of immense interest of the general population due to its widespread prevalence. It is one of the most common medical problems portrayed in ancient paintings.
tl;dr This is the most common and easiest to prevent deficiency so just use the iodized salt.