Table salt, sea salt, pink Himalayan salt. If you’re overwhelmed by the abundance of salt options and have wondered if some salt types have more health benefits than others, we’ve got a guide for you.

Table salt is a refined salt containing about 97 to 99 percent sodium chloride, which means the remaining portion consists of other substances you probably never considered. Let's be real, most of us ...

Claire is Lifehacker's Senior Food Editor. She has a B.S. in chemistry, a decade of food journalism experience, and a deep love for mayonnaise and MSG. I’m not being hyperbolic when I say salt is the ...

Whenever I m flying home and the plane passes over the south end of San Francisco Bay, my eyes can t linger long enough over its startling patches of orange and red. They re sea salt ponds, cultivated ...

The salt you buy at the supermarket to fill up your salt shaker at home is in large granules. The stuff that comes in little packets at a fast food place is much much smaller, almost like a powder. Is ...

Salt substitutes replace sodium chloride in table salt with potassium chloride. They look and taste very similar to regular ...