What is edibility safety of fertilizer-grade Muriate of potash?
Muriate of Potash (MOP) is essentially KCl with often red rust from iron oxides. In order to balance excess Na and deficit K intake by an average person, a significant fraction of table salt may be replaced with low sodium salt-substitutes, and KCl is one of them (although it tastes metallic-bitter in high concentration). More specific questions to this regard are
- What are the most harmful minor and trace elements found in as-mined evaporite MOP or fertilizer grade MOP? What are the sources of impurities, and how these are commercially removed (e.g. to produce pharmaceutical grade KCl), if any? And what would be possible damage (both acute and chronic) incurred by consumption of fertilizer-grade MOP in moderation (e.g. amount similar to or somewhat less than table salt)?
- Can any infectious virion or Bacterial cyst or any other halophile pathogen (that may attack human body) survive the high osmotic pressure and high ionic conductivity environment of KCl seam/storage even if it is somewhat damp or percolated by water?
- Since a significant amount of Ferric (oxyhydr)oxide is intermingled with KCl, will the iron-oxide unremoved MOP ingestion can disrupt redox balance of metabolism of body? What would be "digestion" end product of ferric oxide thus consumed? or is it necessary to remove the iron oxide before consuming MOP?
If it enters the human body one-time, then nothing terrible will happen. But long-term use - will cause serious changes in the kidneys, liver in the first place
The Muriate of Potash is the minor toxic. May irritate skin, eyes, respiratory and digestive organs. Exposure routes: inhalation, swallowing, skin and eye contact. Did not show carcinogenic effects in animal experiments. Did not show mutagenic effects in animal experiments.
@ Sumit, excessive consumption of this , may lead to its accumulation that could cause severe and irreparable damage to the kidney and disrupt normal body functions which may eventually lead to loss of life. Although, It has been used for centuries throughout West Africa to gently cleanse and exfoliate skin. It has many wide uses from water purification to skin lightening.
If it enters the human body one-time, then nothing terrible will happen. But long-term use - will cause serious changes in the kidneys, liver in the first place
Potassium cations can compete with other cations in nutrition.
One can induce Magnesium deficiency by the application muriate of potash in soils that have low Magnesium supplying power.
The use of Magnesium supplementation may be identified using plant tissue analysis. In soil with an Mg analysis of less than 100, there is a distinct possibly of Magnesium deficiency especially when potassium is applied without any accompanying Magnesium.
In temperate environments, the first spring forage growth can be deficient in Magnesium giving the grass tetany of foraging animals.
Magnesium giving a condition of muscular issues called grass tetany is a function of the needed magnesium for muscular activity.
Magnesium deficiency is common in old soils such as oxisols and ultisols under acid solution conditions.
We have written numerous times on this site about worsening mineral deficiency in the modern human diet, including magnesium.
But soil scientist Paul Reed Hepperly, writing in Acres USA, describes how our magnesium and other nutrient deficiencies have come… from the ground up.
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The latest USDA nutritional report (2012) found that nearly 60 percent of American males and females do not get the recommended minimum daily amount of magnesium in their diet. Why?
As Hepperly said, “our nutritional status is literally grounded in balanced nutrition from soil.”
And the majority of our food is produced by giant commercial operations geared towards size and profits rather than nutritional balance in the soil.
Unlike nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium and even calcium, magnesium is seldom considered in conventional fertilization programs, Hepperly explained.
“How we farm and the status of our food system, which is soil-based, can make the difference between health and disease.
Synthetic chemical fertilization, touted over the years as a solution to our agricultural and food needs, actually has represented a dangerous double-edged sword.
“When we optimize one factor in isolation we frequently cause artificial imbalance and disruption of other critical factors, creating unnecessary chronic mineral havoc,” said Hepperly.
Instead of boosting nutrients, selective synthetically enhanced chemical fertilizers have played ANTI-NUTRIENT roles by preventing a person or animal’s intake of limited nutrients from efficiently performing their natural synergistic (working together) functions, and absorbing appropriate nutrients where needed in the body.
Fortunately, many dedicated farmers, gardeners, consumers and heirloom seed-savers are working to save and restore soil and grow and eat more of the non-chemicalized kind of diet our grandparents consumed. If at all possible, support these people.
They have learned that nutrients and good health, including magnesium, come from the ground up.
Hepperly reminds us that magnesium governs over 300 biochemical reactions by playing important roles within enzymes. Researchers point to the tandem of low dietary intake and high refined sugar as the” deadly duo” driving deficiency of this critical element in humans and the plants and animals they eat.
Additional causes of rampant magnesium deficiency may include stress and pharmaceutical drugs such as hypertension drugs which lower magnesium intake dramatically.\
Those who cannot depend on food containing essential nutrients and ‘magnesium from the ground up’ would be wise to seek reliable whole food supplements that supply their almost certain dietary deficiencies.
Our nutritional necessities once came from the ground up. For most of us, NO MORE. But…health freedom is still possible. Do your part!
Source: Acresusa.comgnesium dolomitic limestone is suggested for liming to a pH of 5.7 to 6.5 pH.
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