Cooking Salt
Cooking Salt, also known as culinary salt or kitchen salt, is a fundamental ingredient used in various culinary applications worldwide. It is primarily composed of sodium chloride and is essential for enhancing the flavour of dishes while also serving functional purposes in cooking and food preservation.
Features:
- Purity and Quality: Cooking Salt is meticulously processed to ensure high purity, free from impurities that could affect flavour and texture.
- Grain Size: It comes in various grain sizes, from fine to coarse, to suit different culinary needs—from fine salt for baking to coarse salt for seasoning meats.
- Versatility: Widely used in cooking, baking, seasoning, pickling, and preserving foods due to its ability to enhance flavors and aid in food preservation.
- Non-Iodized or Iodized Options: Available in both non-iodized and iodized forms. Iodized variants are enriched with iodine to support thyroid health.
Benefits:
- Enhances Flavour: Cooking Salt is essential for bringing out the natural flavours of ingredients in dishes, making them more palatable and enjoyable.
- Versatility: It can be used in various culinary applications including cooking, baking, seasoning, pickling, and food preservation, making it a versatile ingredient in the kitchen.
- Texture Enhancement: In baking, salt helps to strengthen gluten formation in doughs, resulting in improved texture and structure of baked goods like bread and pastries.
- Food Preservation: Its ability to draw out moisture and inhibit microbial growth makes Cooking Salt ideal for preserving foods, such as in pickling vegetables or curing meats.
- Nutritional Support: Iodized variants provide essential iodine, necessary for thyroid health and preventing iodine deficiency disorders like goitre.
- Balanced Diet: Sodium from Cooking Salt is crucial for maintaining electrolyte balance and supporting nerve and muscle function in the body.
- Culinary Convenience: Cooking Salt is easy to use and store, available in various grain sizes to suit different cooking and seasoning needs.
Applications:
- Seasoning: Used to season and enhance the taste of meats, vegetables, soups, sauces, and salads during cooking.
- Baking: Essential for baking to improve dough texture, aid in gluten development, and balance sweetness in desserts.
- Pickling and Preserving: Its ability to draw out moisture and inhibit microbial growth makes it ideal for pickling vegetables and preserving meats and fish.
- Table Use: Often used as a finishing touch, sprinkled over cooked dishes or salads just before serving to add a final burst of flavor.
- Food Processing: Widely used in food manufacturing for consistent flavouring and preserving properties in processed foods.
Certificate Of Analysis:
| No. |
Specifications |
Unit |
Minimum |
Maximum |
Results |
| 1 |
Sodium Chloride as NaCl |
% |
98.5 |
99.2 |
99.05 |
| 2 |
Calcium as Ca |
% |
0.10 |
0.28 |
0.14 |
| 3 |
Magnesium as Mg |
% |
0.035 |
0.073 |
0.048 |
| 4 |
Moisture by mass |
% |
0.20 |
0.28 |
0.24 |
| 5 |
Water Insoluble |
% |
0.07 |
0.12 |
0.10 |
| 6 |
Sulphate as So4 |
% |
0.30 |
0.60 |
0.38 |
| 7 |
Alkalinity |
% |
0.07 |
0.10 |
0.08 |
| 8 |
Particle size passing through |
|
|
150 Micron |
% |
4.0 |
7.0 |
5.5 |
|
850 Micron |
% |
2.0 |
3.8 |
2.46 |
| 9 |
Iodine contains |
PPM |
As per Buyer’s requirements |
| 10 |
Silica |
% |
0.2 |
0.24 |
0.21 |
| 11 |
Anticaking agent as PFC |
PPM |
10 Max. |
< 10 |
Note: We are also manufacturing, supplying and exporting Cooking Salt as per Buyer’s requirements or Specifications report.
Packing types: 250 Gram Pouch, 500 Gram Pouch, 1000 Gram Pouch, 20 KG Bag, 25 KG Bag, 50 KG Bag, 1 Metric Ton Jumbo Bag and 1400 KG Jumbo Bag packings with & without Shrink Wrapped Palletized or as per Buyer’s requirements.
Loading per 20 Feet Container: 28 Metric Tons or as per Buyer’s requirements.
