Have you ever wondered why particularly honest, hardworking or earnest people can be called the salt of the earth? Britain has produced salt for over 5,500 years, and salt production has been essential to life in the North West of England for just as long. Little did the ancient Britons know, salt consumption has been much more essential to their lives for much, much longer than salt production has. Here’s the science.

Sodium is the most common electrolyte in the fluid outside of your body’s cells. It is key for balancing fluids in your body at a cellular level, and it helps the absorption of specific compounds into cells. This makes sodium the principal electrolyte involved in your body’s hydration. Sodium is involved in the contraction of your muscles, the impulses that carry messages between your nerve cells, and the water you drink will follow sodium into and out of cells to deliver water all over your body.

Our Grape Salt 5.5g sachets have the equivalent of 336mg of sodium in them, which is 14% of your daily recommended intake. This sodium comes in the form of Himalayan pink salt. This is an ancient and pure form of salt which gets its pastel colour from iron oxide mixed amongst Himalayan pink salts numerous trace compounds over millions of years under immense pressure.

We use this salt because it comes from a natural source; contains many trace amounts of magnesium, calcium, manganese, and zinc; and ultimately Himalayan pink salt has been found to have slightly lower sodium levels than sea salt. This allows our Grape Salt powder to better match a healthy electrolyte profile which can be easily digested by your body when you sweat out key minerals during intense or longer workouts.