An apparent labeling shakeup caused confusion during packaging, according to the FDA in a new report.

These days, home cooks have an abundance of options for filling their salt shakers: kosher salt, smoked salt, pink Himalayan, and beyond. But before fancy salts took over supermarket shelves and ...

Without knowing your location or diet, my answer is a qualified “yes.” We obtain iodine from food grown in soils that contain it, but large areas of the world’s soils lack sufficient iodine. So, ...

In the early 20th century, iodine deficiency was ravaging much of the northern United States. The region was widely known as the "goiter belt," for the goiters - heavily swollen thyroid glands - that ...

Iodized salt helps prevent iodine-deficiency disorders, including goiters and certain birth defects. Yet it's unclear how this seasoning interacts with chloramine-treated drinking water if some of the ...

Amid concern that people in the United States are consuming inadequate amounts of iodine, scientists in Texas have found that 53 percent of iodized salt samples contained less than the U.S. Food and ...

Reducing table salt can have some health benefits, but, cutting iodized salt can mean shorting yourself on an important nutrient - iodine. Our bodies are unable to make this mineral, yet it's key for ...

The Salt Institute, trade group for all things salty, has a simple message for you: Iodized table salt should not be used as protection against radioactive fallout. As the nuclear situation in Japan ...