Fasting Salts
Fasting salts are sodium, potassium, and magnesium in a scoop you stir into water. Raw Unflavored is zero calories with no sweetener; every flavor is zero sugar.
About fasting salts
Fasting salts are the three minerals a fast keeps drawing down: sodium, potassium, and magnesium. Saltivate Raw Unflavored is those three, 800mg sodium, 240mg potassium, and 60mg magnesium in about 3g of powder, zero calories, no sweetener. Stir a scoop into water and it dissolves clear.
Every powder here is zero sugar. Raw Unflavored is the pick for a strict water fast. The flavored sticks add a soft fruit taste and about 10 calories for a fast that allows it. The jar lives on the kitchen counter, the stick packs in the desk drawer and the bag.
Cutting carbs at the same time? See electrolytes for fasting and keto. Why a fast draws down sodium is in our guide to electrolytes for fasting. The first low-carb week is covered in electrolytes for keto flu.
What is in it
Sodium, potassium, magnesium. Nothing else.
Raw Unflavored is three mineral salts: sodium chloride, potassium citrate, and dimagnesium malate. One scoop is about 3g of powder, zero calories, no sweetener. In a glass of water it tastes like lightly salted water. Every jar and stick format is in unflavored electrolyte powder. For a doctor-set sodium target rather than a fast, see sodium supplement.
AI generatedWhy not table salt
Salt in water covers one of the three
A pinch of salt in water puts back sodium and stops there. Potassium and magnesium have to come from somewhere else, and measuring potassium chloride and a magnesium powder by hand every fasting day gets bitter and imprecise. Fasting salts put all three in one scoop, in one ratio, every time. What a pinch converts to is in the sodium to salt calculator.
When the fast allows a taste
Watermelon, Orange, Mango Pineapple
The flavored sticks carry the same 800mg sodium, 240mg potassium, and 60mg magnesium, with zero sugar and about 10 calories a serving. They are sweetened with Reb M made by fermenting rice, not from stevia, so there is no stevia aftertaste. Every flavored stick is in sugar free electrolyte packets.
Frequently asked questions
What are fasting salts?
Sodium, potassium, and magnesium in a form you can stir into water. Saltivate Raw Unflavored is sodium chloride, potassium citrate, and dimagnesium malate: 800mg sodium, 240mg potassium, and 60mg magnesium per scoop, zero calories, no sweetener.
Are these fasting safe electrolytes? Will they break my fast?
Raw Unflavored is zero calories with no sweetener and no flavoring, so it fits a strict water fast. The flavored sticks are zero sugar and about 10 calories, sweetened with Reb M, which most fasting approaches treat as negligible. On a strict protocol, stay with Raw Unflavored.
Can I just use table salt for fasting?
Salt in water gives you sodium. Potassium and magnesium have to come from somewhere else, and measuring potassium chloride and magnesium by hand gets bitter and imprecise. Fasting salts put all three in one scoop.
How much fasting salt do I take, and when?
One scoop of Raw Unflavored in a glass of water. Many people take one serving in the morning and a second later in the day, often when a headache or lightheadedness starts to creep in. Adjust by how you feel; the jar makes it easy to use half a scoop or two.
Which electrolyte salts for a water fast, unflavored or flavored?
Raw Unflavored for a water fast: sodium, potassium, and magnesium, zero calories. The flavors are for a fast that allows about 10 calories; they are zero sugar and sweetened with Reb M made from fermented rice rather than stevia leaf.
Does unflavored fasting salt taste like anything?
Lightly salted water. One scoop is about 2g of salt, and the potassium citrate adds hardly any taste of its own. In coffee or tea it reads as a little seasoning.
Can I pay with my HSA or FSA card?
Yes. Pay with your HSA/FSA card at checkout, on every jar and stick pack here.
