Hydration
Himalayan Rock Salt (Pink Salt)
Pink rock salt is mostly sodium chloride; its trace minerals are too small to matter at label doses, and its sodium is what the label's Sodium row reports.
How it counts: Counted as sodium
Labels that print salt by weight also print a Sodium amount, and that amount already includes the salt’s sodium. We score that Sodium amount in Salty and don’t count the salt’s weight a second time. Neither moves the grade.
- Clinical dose
- No established clinical dose
- Safety ceiling
- —
- Evidence
- weak
- Category
- Hydration
Evidence summary
Research confidence: low
No reference dose and not scored. The printed amount is the salt's weight, not sodium. Its sodium is already declared in the label's Sodium row, which carries the Salty score; scoring the salt too would count the same sodium twice.
Research sources
- An Analysis of the Mineral Composition of Pink Salt Available in Australia (Fayet-Moore et al., Foods 2020)(opens in new window)
- Same study, PubMed Central full text(opens in new window)
Pink salt samples contained about 34-46% sodium by weight; more than 30 g a day would be needed for the other minerals to contribute meaningfully to intake.
- Bucked Up Mother Bucker product and label information(opens in new window)
Label prints 'Himalayan Rock Salt - with Trace Minerals 300 mg' alongside a separate 'Sodium 125 mg' Supplement Facts row.