Traditional Sea Salt Ria Formosa 500g X 2

Traditional Sea Salt Ria Formosa 500g X 2

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Description

Sea Salt is one of the magnificent and ancestral natural products of Portugal. Belamandil Sea Salt has its origin in Ria Formosa a place considered one of the 7 Portugal's Natural Wonders.

It cames in a very practical and attractive packaging, all made from 100% natural Portuguese materials that optimize the good conservation of this product, like the cork (lid).

One of the best representative sample of portuguese natural sea salt to use in your kitchen or to offer as a gift.

Sea Salt is often confused with Traditional Sea Salt though its differences are easy to identify.

The Traditional Sea Salt is produced in small centennial salt evaporation ponds using ancestral methods. It is a 100% natural process without any processing using only sea water, solar energy and man work.

The natural crystallization process is optimized so that most of the minerals present in the sea water are kept in the salt, making it a more complete salt from a nutritional point of view.

After crystallization the salt is collected by hand and dried in the sun for a period of at least five days so that the remaining water evaporates, thus maximizing the percentage of magnesium and iodine present. The whiteness and humidity are unique characteristics of this salt.

The productive period of the Traditional Sea Salt is between May and September. Sea Salt is the ideal product to use in cooking.

Salt of the World

Rock Salt has a composition of around 99% of Sodium Chloride.

Maldon Salt is a salt produced in the United Kingdom and produced through the evaporation of water in heated recipients with fossil fuels, which was definitely not an ecological process.

Gray Salt (Sel Gris) is a traditional sea salt from France that has a grey colouring due to the dilution of mud in the salt.

Sea Salt is the most common of all and is collected in salt evaporation ponds by machines and later chemically washed, centrifuged, dried and many times whitened.

Refined Salt does not come directly from salt evaporation ponds. It is dissolved and recrystallized at a temperature and pressure controlled in industrial installations. The crystals are exclusively made up of sodium chloride and are all the same. They are dried by the heat of combustion of petroleum products and have additives of anticaking agent, aluminium oxicilicate and potassium ferrocyanide.

Salt Flakes is a similar product to the Maldon Salt where the burning of fossil fuels are used.

Himalayan Salt is a kind of rock salt with impurities which give it its characteristic colour.

The Brand

Belamandil is a Muslim name and its origin is from Bellad Mandil (Land of the Mandil) - mandil is the Arab name for a veil that covers the head.

It is located in a very unique place, Ria Formosa Natural Parque the company has a deep and rooted philosophy of preservation of the natural environment, biodiversity and defence of the natural heritage in its “genetic code”. These values are breathed into the company and have inevitably been recognized with several awards and certifications.

Awards and certifications

Ria Formosa is one of the Natural Wonders of Portugal. This distinction is shared with the Laurissilva Forest, Volcanic View of Pico Island, Caves of Mira de Aire, Portinho da Arrábida, Lagoa das Sete Cidades (Lake of the Seven Cities), and the Natural Park of Peneda Gerês in the category of the Sea Zone of Portugal.

This award highlights the importance of this protected area that has a high biological and ecological richness hosting in it endemic and rare species for conservation and making it a unique coastal zone and a reference of sustainability.

History

Since Necton works in the food area, it knows how important food quality is and the responsibility that the products sold are in compliance with all the current norms.

Since 2005 Necton implemented the HACCP process for the entire Salt process, from the water quality assessment to the shipping of the final product to Customers.

In order to have external assessments on the quality of its products, Necton has several Certifications that ensure the collection process and the final quality of the product.

Nature et Progress - certification since 1999

Certiplanet - certification since 2004

Kosher - certification since 2005

Eco-garantie - certification since 2007

Sativa - certification since 2009

Currently Necton is in the implementation phase of the BRC – British Retail Consortium, which will allow the company to have a global safety program and a global certification known worldwide.