Anticaking agents are used in such things as table salt to keep the product from forming lumps, making it better for packaging, transport and for the consumer. Anticaking agent in salt is denoted in the ingredients as anti-caking agent (554) that is sodium aluminosilicate, a man made product.
Surfactant [alpha]-(carboxymethyl)-v- (nonylphenoxy) produced by the condensation of 1 mole of nonylphenol (nonyl group is a propylene trimer isomer) with an average of 4- 14 or 30-90 moles of ethylene oxide.