# salt - ingredients? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 25, 2003, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salt-ingredients/171105 "2003-04-25T13:43:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Kamelion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8baadc/32.png) [@Kamelion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamelion)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salt-ingredients/171105/21 "2003-05-08T09:45:43Z")
That would be no H+ or OH- (the characteristic ions of acids and bases respectively). Funnily enough, we just started studying that today in Chemistry… And, yeah, Irishman is correct in thinking that salt shouldn’t have ingredients - it’s a compound formed (along with water) in an acid-base reaction. Whether it’s sodium chloride or not is irrelevant; salt doesn’t have ingredients! ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2003, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salt-ingredients/171105/22 "2003-05-12T04:00:19Z")
**Bre’r Lappin** , read the fucking links I provided. Think maybe I read that somewhere? Keep your nitpicks to yourself. My whole complaint against **Dogface** is his arguing over the wording of the statement and completely missing the point. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salt-ingredients/171105.md?page=1)