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[katkitty]

Does someone know just when Morton began putting powdered dextrose [simple sugar], in their boxes of iodized salt?

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].

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.

Ingredients now read: salt [bleached], calcium silicate, dextrose, potassium iodide.

What's with the sugar added to the salt?

Filler?