Salts & minerals
An electrolyte mix needs its salts weighed to the gram, while filtered water only needs a pinch or a few drops to get some minerals back. Salt can’t be organic, so here clean means additive-free or food-grade. A budget salt is last on the list.
What clean means here: Unrefined and additive-free, or food-grade purity
Salt is a mineral, not a crop, so it can’t be certified organic. Look instead for a salt with no anti-caking agents or dextrose, and for “food grade” (FCC) or USP purity on a mineral powder.
Our picks
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Redmond Real Salt, Fine
$12 · 26 oz pouchShop Redmond Real Salt, Fine on Amazon
Unrefined salt with no additives. The canning salt below has none either, so what the extra money buys is trace minerals.
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Trace Minerals ConcenTrace Trace Mineral Drops
$34 · 8 fl oz bottleShop Trace Minerals ConcenTrace Trace Mineral Drops on Amazon
A food-grade trace-mineral concentrate you dose in drops. Use it to put minerals back into reverse-osmosis water or to round out an electrolyte mix.
About a quarter teaspoon per gallon of reverse-osmosis water; the label’s half-teaspoon serving is the electrolyte dose.
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BulkSupplements Potassium Chloride Powder
$23 · 1 kg bagShop BulkSupplements Potassium Chloride Powder on Amazon
Food-grade potassium chloride, 99%-plus pure and third-party tested. One kilo covers years of daily doses.
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BulkSupplements Magnesium Citrate Powder
$27 · 1 kg bagShop BulkSupplements Magnesium Citrate Powder on Amazon
Magnesium citrate with nothing added. The everyday blend’s 40 mg of magnesium takes about a quarter gram, so a kilo is thousands of doses.
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Morton Canning & Pickling Salt
$5 · 4 lb boxShop Morton Canning & Pickling Salt on Amazon
Plain sodium chloride with no iodine or anti-caking agents, at a fraction of a cent a dose. It’s the baseline for the premium below.
The clean premium
- Electrolytes: Redmond Real Salt, Fine costs $0.01 more per serving than Morton Canning & Pickling Salt, or about $0.29 a month at five a week.
- Water: Redmond Real Salt, Fine costs less than a cent more per gallon than Morton Canning & Pickling Salt, or about $0.15 a month at five a week.
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