Most of us grew up with processed table salt in the kitchen, but nature doesn’t make pure white salt. Unrefined sea salt like ours is mostly sodium chloride – along with more than 60 naturally-occurring trace minerals that give it more color and help Real Salt bring the most flavor out of your food. One of these trace minerals (about 1 grain out of every 800) is silica, which is not always water soluble. People take silica supplements to support healthy skin, hair, and fingernails, with recent research pointing to benefits for memory, nerve cell health, and pancreatic insulin release. It may be worth finding ways to get more silica into your diet, but when you use Real Salt you might see it settle at the bottom of a glass or even notice the texture in your breakfast. These natural minerals are exactly the reason so many people won’t use anything but Real Salt.