It comes from bamboo skin. The more bamboo salt is roasted, the more the power and smell of sulfur is present in the bamboo salt. Although it stinks but it is good for your health and once you get used to it, the smell will come natural to you. 

These are pieces of activated carbon from the bamboo. The more bamboo salt is roasted the more pieces of carbon will mix with the handmade sea salt. Carbon helps remove waste from the body. Thanks to those black dots, your health will benefit.

Due to the high temperatures of roasting, the active carbon and sulfur from the bamboo make the salt turns purple. The more the carbon from burnt bamboo comes in contact with the salt, the darker the shade of purple. 

PBS cooking bamboo salt – 2 times roasted at 2500 °C. 

PBS drinking bamboo salt – 6 times roasted at 2500 °C.

Yes. Pregnant women need more minerals and trace minerals during pregnancy and it is extremely important in supporting reproduction.

When you consume bamboo salt, you may feel some inconvenient symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, itching, hives, etc., from time to time. These are not side effects. Each of these is regarded as a healing crisis, the body’s reaction to cure diseases, and they disappear naturally within several days. When you feel any of the inconvenient symptoms mentioned above, you need to gradually increase your amount of bamboo salt intake so that your body can adapt to it.

You can take bamboo salt with supplements but as for TCM or any medicine, it is advisable to have interval of two hours.

The main ingredient contributes to hypertension is sodium, however, the sodium content in bamboo salt is much lower if compared to table salt. In addition, the molecule size of minerals that is found in purple bamboo salt is in micron level, it can move freely from blood stream to cells and vice versa without creating osmotic pressure. Therefore, it does not cause high blood pressure if we consume it in moderate amount.