These new varieties grow with smaller amounts of water or with lower-quality water, such as recycled water or water high in natural mineral salts.

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"I suppose if you lay in a bath filled with mineral salts and trace elements some small part of that will be absorbed through your skin, " he says.

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Salt snobs especially prize the mild, mineral flavor that sea salts convey.

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