Your Salt Isn't Just Sodium Chloride Table salt is a refined salt containing about 97 to 99 percent sodium chloride, which ...

You must have heard about Mahatma Gandhi's Dandi March. Did you know that salt was such an important part in our struggle for freedom? What is salt? Salt, also commonly known as table salt, is a ...

Claire is Lifehacker's Senior Food Editor. She has a B.S. in chemistry, a decade of food journalism experience, and a deep love for mayonnaise and MSG. I’m not being hyperbolic when I say salt is the ...