what is black salt?

Black salt, which is really pink, is a volcanic, rock mineral salt with a strong sulphur taste. It's mined in India and used in a lot of Indian Cuisine and also ayurvedic medicine.

Gorgia85
Thank you for your reply

Can you give me the composition of black salt?

Never too old to learn something..

Several sites listed the black salt but I stopped looking after I found this one.
Most described a volcanic Indian source of Rock salt that had the flavor of hard boiled egg yolks.

This site describes it as a blend of NaCl and
Na2S04 Sodium sulfphate. http://www.geocities.com/herbalexporter/miniral.htm
They didn't describe the proportions nor what gives the true product the pinkish hue. It would be an interesting trace element problem.

good luck

Peteeo, I am not sure that site is totally correct about the ingredients. All I have read about Black Salt was that it was extremely low in sodium and the ingredients I found for it were potassium chloride Ingredients Indian Black Salt

I also read that it got it's pinkish coloring from clay

Still learning. That is one of the troubles with the internet, trivial names or brand names for chemical substances and sometimes the lack of precision of the english language. (let's call a pink compound 'black salt')

I'd looked at several hits from the google search and most had described the flavors and source but not a formula. Your source gives a different formula and a reason that the KCl is not pure white.

As it's natural mined product both internet sources could be right or wrong. Without testing several samples we won't know from personal knowledge.

For my personal experience with KCl my father inlaw was on a low sodium diet and used a product known as no-salt. KCl in pure white crsytaline form. I'll choose no salt vs no-salt if my doctor puts me on a restrictive diet. I didn't care for the flavor. I'd never heard of the 'black salt' before. No matter the formula I'll give it a try if I see it on my table or in a food store.

I mention the follwing site for further reference
BLACK SALT