What brand of salt does Jiangsu eat?

Most of the salt eaten in Jiangsu is Huai salt.

Huai salt is a kind of salt, named after Huaihe River crossing Jiangsu saltworks. It has the reputation of "the benefit of cooking the sea, the Huaihe River is the most important" and "the treasure house of East China". It is famous for its "white color, big grain and dry" characteristics. 2015 September 10, workers were scraping salt in Houzui Seaside Industrial Zone, Yantian, Taipei, Lianyungang City, Jiangsu Province. Since that day, 500,000 mu of raw salt in Lianyungang has entered the "autumn baking" operation. The workers seized the good weather and accelerated the harvest of raw salt.

Huaiyan Salt is named after Huaihe River crossing Jiangsu saltworks. Jiangsu saltworks are distributed in the embroidered needle estuary at the junction of Sulu and Shandong in the north, and the inclined long coastal zone at the Yangtze River estuary in the south, spanning Lianyungang, Yancheng, Huai 'an and Nantong 13 counties, covering an area of 653 square kilometers. Jiangsu coastal area is suitable for sea salt production, with the widest coastal beach in China and four totally different climatic conditions. Huai salt producing area is one of the four major salt producing areas in China. Because Huaiyan is a local brand in Jiangsu, most people in Jiangsu eat Huaiyan.

Types of salt:

1, sea salt is a kind of salt made from seawater, which is suitable for most people to eat. Compared with other salts, sea salt tastes softer, with minerals and salty taste in the mouth and a little sweetness in the aftertaste. Sea salt is generally not added directly to cooking, but is used when curing or baking sticky or unpalatable ingredients.

2. iodized salt is usually made of potassium iodide and potassium sulfate, which can be eaten by all kinds of people. In remote mountainous areas lacking seafood, the iodine content in food is relatively low, so it is suggested to eat iodized salt to maintain the normal needs of the body.

3. Refined salt is a kind of salt produced by single-well convection aqueous solution method and refined by salt-making evaporation crystallization process. Different from ordinary salt, refined salt is not simple refined, but refined and purified. It may be sea salt, well salt, lake salt, or most likely rock salt.

4. Rock salt is a kind of salt with lower salty taste than sea salt, but heavier mineral and soil flavor. Can be kept at a certain temperature for a long time. Besides common salt, it can also be sprinkled on ice cream or used to cook fish and vegetables.

5. Bamboo salt is extracted by putting sun-dried salt into bamboo, sealing it with loess and calcining it at high temperature for many times. Bamboo salt tastes pure and fragrant, suitable for all kinds of cooking.

The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Huaiyan.