Your sea salt is polluted with microplastics

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Chances are, you’re seasoning your food with a pinch of plastic.

There’s a global problem with microplastics — small plastic fragments less than five millimeters in length — getting mixed in with commercial food-grade salts, according to a new study.

The research, published in the scientific journal Environmental Science & Technology, looked at 39 different salt brands, including 28 sea salt brands from 16 different countries or regions on six continents.

More than 90% of sampled salts were found to contain microplastics. Sea salts were the most likely to be contaminated with plastics, followed by lake salt and rock salt.

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