Would you like some plastic pieces with that salt? . . . No? . . . Me neither.
"Fleur de Sel (as a particularly noble variant) is considered by many consumers to be particularly valuable and tasty. It is produced as a very thin layer of salt on the surface of the water and is usually skimmed off by hand with a wooden scoop." - adalhelm
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A lot people also think they are eating healthy natural salt by eating sea salt.
But here's the problem . . . the seas are polluted by plastic waste.
Therefore, because of this polluted ecological environment of ours in our modern time, there is in sea salt something termed "microplastic," plastic particles that have been rubbed on stone by the sea movement, stones so small they are barely recognizable.
"There are a lot of microplastics in Fleur de Sel. In a random sample, Markt (a German documentary show) and the Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM) examined five of the most popular Fleur de Sel varieties in the laboratory for residues of plastics.
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The below recreated table of adalhelm shows the plastic content in different sea salt variations in micrograms (mg.) per kilogram (kg.):
Product
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Plastic parts
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Aquasale Fleur de Sel
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1796
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Fleur de Sel de Camargue
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582
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Fleur de Sel de Guérande
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469
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Fleur de Ibiza
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424
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Fleur de Sel Rewe fine world
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138
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Aldi Lemar Sea Salt
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59
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Aquasale sea salt
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47.7
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Edeka Good & Cheap Sea Salt
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37.5
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Alnatura Sea Salt
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14
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