https://community.qvc.com/t5/Kitchen/Iodized-Salt/m-p/192597#M5658 <P>Does someone know just when Morton began putting powdered <STRONG>dextrose [simple sugar], </STRONG> in their boxes of iodized salt?</P> <P>I ran out of real [jurassic] salt and picked up a box of Mortons. I didn't read the ingredients till after I used it thinking it was just the usual bleached salt with a 'flowing agent', usually finely ground sand [silica].</P> <P>Actually when I was shaking it out there arose a cloud of dust that I didn't ever remember happening before with Morton's salt.</P> <P>Ingredients now read: salt [bleached], calcium silicate, <STRONG>dextrose</STRONG>, potassium iodide.</P> <P>What's with the sugar added to the salt?</P> <P>Filler?</P> <P> </P> Mon, 23 Apr 2012 15:59:28 GMT katkitty 2012-04-23T15:59:28Z https://community.qvc.com/t5/Kitchen/Iodized-Salt/m-p/192597#M5658 <P>Does someone know just when Morton began putting powdered <STRONG>dextrose [simple sugar], </STRONG> in their boxes of iodized salt?</P> <P>I ran out of real [jurassic] salt and picked up a box of Mortons. I didn't read the ingredients till after I used it thinking it was just the usual bleached salt with a 'flowing agent', usually finely ground sand [silica].</P> <P>Actually when I was shaking it out there arose a cloud of dust that I didn't ever remember happening before with Morton's salt.</P> <P>Ingredients now read: salt [bleached], calcium silicate, <STRONG>dextrose</STRONG>, potassium iodide.</P> <P>What's with the sugar added to the salt?</P> <P>Filler?</P> <P> </P> Mon, 23 Apr 2012 15:59:28 GMT https://community.qvc.com/t5/Kitchen/Iodized-Salt/m-p/192597#M5658 katkitty 2012-04-23T15:59:28Z