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Vegetable salt

New Delhi May 18. Researchers at the Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute at Bhavnagar in Gujarat have produced salt from a vegetable plant.

``This is the first time salt has been produced from a vegetable source and we have filed an international patent,'' Pushpito Ghosh, Director of the CSMCRI, an institute under the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research told PTI. Named ``saloni'', it contains several important nutrients not normally found in sea salt.

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