{"id":2105,"date":"2007-04-12T10:27:24","date_gmt":"2007-04-12T10:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/2007\/04\/pure-and-simple.html"},"modified":"2007-04-12T10:27:24","modified_gmt":"2007-04-12T10:27:24","slug":"pure_and_simple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/2007\/04\/pure_and_simple.html","title":{"rendered":"Pure and simple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I was in a delicatessan last week that was proudly announcing its range of Himalayan sea salt, making a big deal about how pure it was.  They then went on to comment that the bright pink colour of the salt was due to its high iron content.  I didn&#8217;t know whether to laugh or cry.<\/p>\n<p>Not very important in the grand scheme of things, I know, but I&#8217;d like to think that our food producers and retailers would be a bit more careful about how they use words like &#8216;pure&#8217;.  Thanks for letting me get that off my chest&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Andy<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Mitchinson (Associate Editor, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/index.html\">Nature<\/a><\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I was in a delicatessan last week that was proudly announcing its range of Himalayan sea salt, making a big deal about how pure it was. They then went on to comment that the bright pink colour of the salt was due to its high iron content. I didn\u2019t know whether to laugh or cry.&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/2007\/04\/pure_and_simple.html#wpn-more-2105\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/2007\/04\/pure_and_simple.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":154,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-andrew-mitchinson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/154"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}