Salt prevents malnutrition

Larry L. Berger, Ph.D.
Salt Institute
Salt and Trace Minerals newsletter
Spring 1998 (Vol 30, No.1)

Animals have an innate appetite for salt which enables livestock and poultry producers (and pet owners) to ensure their animals' nutritional adequacy using salt as a carrier for tace minerals and additives like ionophores and larvacides. Salt intake can also prevent protein-energy malnutrition, grass tetany and urinary calculi.