evidence: Several videos have been posted on social media claiming that Himalayan salt is the ‘petrified blood and/or meat of ancient giants’. For example, a TikTok video making these claims was posted on Facebook 18 May 2024 and accumulated 385K views. An older TikTok video posted in 2022, linked here, gathered over 12.4 million views. And over a dozen videos with these claims were shared on TikTok between these dates. Given the recurring nature of these claims, we will investigate them below using available evidence. [...] Himalayan salt originates from deposits in the Salt Range Formation in the northern Punjab region of Pakistan (Figure 1)[1]. These salt deposits possess unique colors and patterns, due to their composition and the way in which they form. Although these characteristics are thoroughly explained by optical mineralogy and the salt’s composition, social media users claim that these visual traits are evidence that Himalayan salt is the petrified blood and/or meat of ‘ancient giants’. However, as we will explain below, this is inconsistent with available scientific evidence.