Hawaiian Black Sea Salt Question 1632

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Thanks for all the perspective on my question about the black salt I purchased. Here's the response I got from the store. My salt is Palm Island Black Lava Sea Salt. Cheers, Rox

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Thank you for your inquiry concerning the Black Sea Salt you purchased. I am pleased to hear you enjoyed the flavors. I am happy to give you the story behind the product.

The company Hawaii Kai and the brand of their product is Palm Island Gormet. Palm Island GourmetT is a completely new grade of premium natural sea salt, painstakingly researched and developed by Hawaii Kai between 1999 and 2003. No other salt in the world compares to or competes with Palm Island Gourmet in its unique combination of taste, mineral content, intriguing varietals and affordability.

Unlike some specialty salts, which are mined from land deposits, Palm Island Gourmet begins as freshly harvested Pacific Ocean salt-with no additives, nothing artificial. It is then heated to remove impurities, as are the salts of well-known brands such as Maldon, La Baleine, Halen Mon, Pacific Natural, Maine Salt, Borsari, Alaea Hawaiian, etc. But that's the end of any similarity between Palm Island Gourmet and salts such as these.

While making Soul of the Sea¨-our ultra-premium, Star Diamond Award-winning, gourmet Hawaiian sea salts-an extraordinary, mineral-rich tonic we call Ocean EssenceT is produced. We carefully blend this pure, unaltered, super-concentrated fluid into the Pacific Ocean salt through our proprietary multi-step technology, thus restoring natural flavor complexities and trace minerals, which are lost in the heating process.

The result is Palm Island Gourmet White Silver, known for its marvelous sheen and texture, and distinctively "sweet" finish. In addition to being superb in its own right, White Silver is also the basis for our other Palm Island varietals - Red Gold and Black Lava.

Red Gold - Hawaiian Red Alaea is a legendary medicinal clay laden with healthful benefits, which is known to exist only in the Islands of Aloha. Occuring naturally in bright, beautiful veins between layers of lava rock, Red Alaea is nevertheless difficult to find and thus very expensive. Our Red Alaea is the finest available; it's selected especially for Hawaii Kai by Molokai islanders, then baked for purity. When added to White Silver, through our proprietary technique that bonds the natural clay to the salt, the glorious color of our Red Gold is imparted, along with a deliciously nutty flavor.

Black Lava - Activated Charcoal is a proven anti-toxin and digestive-tract palliative; many take it as a nutritional supplement. After years of research and development, we refined another proprietary process to bond this wonderful element to our salts. Hawaii Kai uses only the most costly, highest purity, highest quality activated charcoal, and the resulting varietals are the only true gourmet black salts sold anywhere in the world, prized by top chefs for their luxurious flavor and dramatic, glistening presentation.