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Re:A National Evil – the curse of the goitre in Switzerland by ch4s3 on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @02:05PM (#38785323)
There's literally no way anyone can taste the difference between iodized and non iodized table salt blind to the source. There's just so little there, it seems the Swiss standard is something like 25 mg/kg. There's probably more plastic in the salt than iodine at this point.
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Re:A National Evil – the curse of the goitre in Switzerland by ufo on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @04:21PM (#38786895)
Sadly, this is the argument that people give ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Re:A National Evil – the curse of the goitre in Switzerland by tonfa on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @02:20PM (#38785486)
> There's probably more plastic in the salt than iodine at this point.

Probably not in swiss salt tho (it's usually mountain salt, not sea salt).

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Re:A National Evil – the curse of the goitre in Switzerland by ch4s3 on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @02:29PM (#38785580)
I thought it was clear that I meant that in jest. My point was that the amount of iodine is imperceptibly small.
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Re:A National Evil – the curse of the goitre in Switzerland by tonfa on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @03:03PM (#38785991)
But microplastic in sea salt is a real thing (and might be a bit worrying, personally I now always go for mountain salt, deposited pre-anthropocene era)
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Re:A National Evil – the curse of the goitre in Switzerland by caymanjim on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @04:12PM (#38786790)
What an absurd thing to fixate on. There are a million other things you consume that are going to have more microplastics in them.
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Re:A National Evil – the curse of the goitre in Switzerland by ch4s3 on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @05:59PM (#38787922)
Haha, I totally agree.
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Re:A National Evil – the curse of the goitre in Switzerland by ch4s3 on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @03:52PM (#38786612)
Sure. Even still you’re talking about a highly abrasive product often packed in plastic. But none of that is material to my point.
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Re:A National Evil – the curse of the goitre in Switzerland by masklinn on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @02:33PM (#38785614)
People almost certainly confuse iodine with anticaking agents.
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