Fleur de Sel in a jar (250g)

Collected daily, in a traditional way, during the summer months, fleur de sel is composed of crystals formed by surface from the butcher's shop (salina). Naturally white and moist, it is the essence of the best salt. It is best seasoned after cooking.

One of the most sea-loving features of this mountainous region is the ease with which rainwater penetrates through the rock faults. calearia, thus preventing the presence visible from watercourses that hide, becoming underground. Some of these watercourses become salty as they pass through the rock salt deposit.

This deposit occupies approximately the area of Portuguese Estremadura, between Leiria and Torres Vedras, and was formed over millions of years.

To the Rio Maior Salt Mines are the result of a whim of Nature. A salt mine from a saline spring, extensive and deep, crossed by an underground current, feeds a well from which water seven times saltier than that of the Atlantic Ocean is extracted. The oldest document that know dates back to 1177, but it is thought that the use of rock salt dates back to prehistoric times.

Nutritional declaration

Origin

Portugal

SALT 100% NATURAL 

NO ADDITIVES, MANUALLY AND TRADITIONALLY PRODUCED