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For those who love sea salt, then you will know the term ‘Sel Gris’. The word ‘Gris’ means gray, and refers to the color of the salt. The color comes from the clay that is stirred up from the bottom of the ocean when it rains. In Brittany, where Sel Gris is from, it rains a lot!
Off the coast of Portugal, it is sunny and hot. It is in these waters that a clean, white and exceptional sea salt is found. Still hand-harvested by methods dating before the Romans, this salt is gently gathered from small pools and packed into jars. Containing 80% of the minerals needed by your body, Sal Marinho Tradicional is the larger and slightly coarser grain of Portuguese sea salt that is best used as food is being cooked.
Sal Marinho Tradicional arrives in a 750-gram plastic bag and is labeled Sal Grosso. This larger grain is preferred by cooks as they can easily and quickly salt a dish as it is cooking and do not need to grind the salt. Our team put the salt into a glass jar with a lid and noticed how even weeks later, the salt was still moist and had the faintest fragrance of the sea.
There is no processing done on this salt: the size of the grain (which is about the size of a pin head) is what is naturally scooped from just below the surface of the water. Never at any time does the scoop touch the bottom of the foot deep pools, thereby avoiding any clay or sediment being mixed into the crystals. This results in a clean and pure grain.
There are no anti-caking agents added, and yet the moist grains move and easily shake in the jar. It is a pleasure to grab a pinch and sprinkle it into soups, stews and sauces, and know that a high quality salt containing goodness and subtle flavor is being added to your food.
There is no harshness or bite to this salt. No chemicals, no machinery and processing have been done to alter the subtle richness of this Sal Grosso. This is pure sea salt from a clean coastline in a sunny area and it shows! This salt is taken from the same waters as the pure and creamy Flor de Sal, so you know that you are getting an exceptional sea salt: just one with a larger grain. Everyone at Pure Zing loves this salt and believes that you will too!
