Flôr de Sal
Sea Salt Flakes
The flower of the salt. Delicate, irregular flakes lifted from the very surface of the brine before they can dissolve back into it. For finishing, never for boiling.
Between harvests. Back when the pans are worked again.
Salt Flakes Company / Aveiro, Portugal
From Sea
to Table.
Hand-harvested in Aveiro, Portugal, from salt pans worked since the 10th century.
Harvested by handNo machinery touches the pans
UnrefinedNo additives, no bleaching
Independently analysedUKAS-accredited public analyst
Stocked in the UKDispatched from Essex
The harvest
Boots in the water,
hands on the rake.
When we say hand-harvested, we mean exactly that. Our salineiros wade into the salt pans of Aveiro and lift each batch of crystals from the surface of the brine by hand, using wooden tools their families have used for generations.
01The pans
Atlantic water enters the shallow clay pans of the Ria de Aveiro and is left to the sun and the wind. As it evaporates, the brine thickens until salt begins to form on the surface.
02The craft
The salineiro walks the walls between the pans and scrapes only the top layer, before the crystals grow heavy enough to sink. It is slow, physical work, done the same way it has been done here since the 10th century.
03The table
It is packed as it comes out of the pan. Naturally moist, never washed, never bleached, nothing added. What reaches your kitchen is what the sea left behind.
Two salts. One pan.
Sal Grosso
Coarse Sea Salt Crystals
The working salt of the Portuguese kitchen. Heavier crystals for seasoning through cooking, for brining, for crusting whole fish.
No machinery ever touches the pans.
Ria de Aveiro, Portugal
Independently analysed
We had it tested,
so you do not have to
take our word for it.
Our salt was submitted to Staffordshire Scientific Services for analysis by a UKAS-accredited Public Analyst. Mercury, lead, cadmium and arsenic all came back at or below the limit of detection.
- Sodium chloride
- 93%The rest is moisture and the natural minerals of the brine. Refined table salt is stripped to over 99%.
- Heavy metals
- Below detectionMercury, lead, cadmium, arsenic, antimony, chromium, nickel and cobalt.
- Ingredients
- OneSea salt. Nothing added, nothing washed out, nothing bleached.