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Salt From Plants
Makarand writes "Researchers in India have been able to
extract salt from a plant source for the first time.
The plant salt comes from a salt-loving leafless shrub, salicornia brachaita,
that grows under high-salt conditions accumulating salt in its tissues.
This plant's cultivation was being studied as a possible solution to
reclaiming salty soil along coastal areas. While regular sea salt is predominantly NaCl, this plant salt has
salts of potassium, calcium, magnesium and also nutrients like iron and hence could be marketed as a health salt."
a salt-loving leafless shrub
you mean a potato?
Great Atrocit
Out of curiosity, what is a "health salt"?
You might have heard of it under a different name: Snake oil.
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That's salt a lot of salt in one salt paragraph. Salt.
...Do MUY ESTUPIDA stories like this one get posted, but truly fascinating stories, like the NEW SPECIES OF GIANT JELLYFISH and the NEW SPECIES OF TINY SEAHORSES get rejected?
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They Are Vermin Feeding On Each Other's Feces.
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I could remove the salt from my own urine and market it as a "health salt" - the health food industry is one of the biggest scams out there.
All I have to do is make a few vague claims, and dream up some useful obfuscation ("... extracted from the very life process that it is intended to promote, our exclusive uri-salt promotes healthy kidneys....") and I'm rolling in money.
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