List of edible salts

Edible salts, also known as table salts, are generally derived from mining (rock salt) or evaporation (including sea salt). Edible salts may be identified by such characteristics as their geographic origin, method of preparation, natural impurities, additives, flavourings, or intended purpose (such as pickling or curing).

Name	Image	Type	Notes
Alaea salt			A Hawaiian-style sea salt mixed with a red volcanic clay
Alpenbergkern Salt		Rock	Salt from the Salzkammergut area in the Alps. This salt contains 84 minerals. Its high iron content gives it a unique tan color.
Anatolian (Çankırı) salt		Rock	From underground salt deposits in Çankırı, Central Anatolia, Turkey. Rocks have a white translucent appearance. There are many caves in the province that are used for salt mining since the Hittites
Anglesey Sea Salt			Also known as (Halen Môn), a Welsh sea salt extracted from salt flakes harvested from the Menai Strait in Anglesey (PDO)[1]
Asin tibuok		Sea salt	Literally "whole salt" or "unbroken salt." A rare Filipino traditional artisanal sea salt made from continually soaking coconut husks in seawater for six months then burning it into ashes. Seawater is then poured through the ashes and the resulting brine boiled in clay pots in a furnace. The result is an egg-shaped lump of salt. It is characteristically sold with the upside down broken clay pot, earning it the nickname of "dinosaur egg salt" due to its appearance. Used as seasoning by scraping over food. It originates from Bohol island, Philippines.[2][3][4]
Bahamas Sea Salt		Sea salt	Sea salt has been produced on Great Inagua Island since the 1930s. The Morton Salt Company bought the facility in 1954. This site, comprising 300,000 acres on Great Inagua Island, produces about a million pounds of salt per year‚ the second largest saline operation in North America. Bahamas sea salt can be found in grocery stores and supermarkets in the United States. [5]
Balinese Sea Salt		Sea salt	This seawater is poured over a flat area of raked black sand and left to evaporate for several days. The dry salty sand is gathered and transferred into a series of coconut trunk vats. More sea water is then poured over the salty sand — this filtering process can be repeated several times, until the briny liquid reaches its briniest. The brine is poured into long hollow tree trunks and left to evaporate completely for a final time.
Black lava salt			A salt colored with activated charcoal. Hawaiian manufacture among others.
Brine			A saltwater used in the preservation of food
Cooking salt			A coarse salt that is used in cooking but not at the table.
Croatian Sea Salt		Sea salt	Evaporated from Adriatic sea water collected in salt pans at the town of Nin, Croatia
Curing salt			A salt containing sodium nitrate, used in the preservation of meats[6]
Cyprus pyramid salt		Sea salt	Flakes shapes resembling pyramids evaporated from salt pans around the island of Cyprus
Çamaltı (Billur) salt		Sea salt	Fine grain iodized sea salt produced from Aegean Sea in Çamaltı Saltworks located at İzmir, Turkey
Dead Sea salt		Sea salt	Dead Sea salt refers to salt extracted or taken from the Dead Sea
Egyptian Frost Salt		Rock	crystalline salt that takes its name from its texture similar to frost
		Salt from brine	Brine is pumped to the surface of a well from 200 meters below ground and evaporated to produce the salt. Production is by Salines d'Einville, located in Einville-au-Jard, in Lorraine, France. Pétales de sel resemble fleurs de sel. Activity began in 1871, renewed in 1988. [7] Similar to salt produced by the J.Q. Dickinson Salt-Works in the Kanawha Valley in West Virginia and Maras salt from Peru.
Flake salt			A type of salt with flake-shaped crystals
Fleur de sel			A hand-harvested sea salt, Typically from France
Guerrero Negro		Sea salt	One of the largest producers of salt in the world, producing evaporated sea salt from the Guerrero Negro, Mexico Salt pans
Halite		Rock	The mineral term for rock salt
Himalayan salt		Rock	A rock salt with a pink color, mined in Pakistan.
Ilocano Asin		Sea salt	Evaporated in salt ponds and hand harvested at Pangasinan province in the Philippines. Ilocano Asin is coarse, moist, white, and salty.
Jukyeom			A Korean salt roasted in bamboo
Kalahari Salt			From the Kalahari Desert salt pans
		Rock	Kalo Nun or Kala namak is a kiln-fired rock salt used in South Asia with a sulphurous, pungent-smell. It is also known as "Himalayan black salt"
Kanawha Valley Salt		Salt from brine	Produced by the J. Q. Dickenson Salt Works in Malden, West Virginia.[8] Brine is pumped to the surface from 300 feet below ground and evaporated to produce the salt. Similar to Einville salt and salt from Maras in Peru.
Khoisan Salt Pearls			South African Sea Salt formed by wind action across a salt pan
Kitchen salt			A coarse salt that is used in cooking but not at the table
Kosher salt			A large-grained, non-iodised salt
Lake Grassmere Salt		Sea salt	Seawater, from the Pacific Ocean, is pumped into Lake Grassmere, New Zealand and evaporated.
Maldon sea salt			Sea salt flakes harvested in the River Blackwater, Essex, UK
Maras Salt			Salt ponds are more commonly found on coastal plains, filled with seawater from the incoming tide. The ones in Peru are at an altitude of 3,000 metres. It’s a long way to the ocean, but it wasn’t always so; this impressive mountain range was once part the sea floor. The movement of tectonic plates pushed the seabed up to form the Andes. The sea salt was locked into the rocks and filters out through the Qoripujio spring, which is then routed to roughly 5,000 evap ponds staggered down the valley in terraces.
Mongolian Lake Salt			Evaporated from saline lakes in inner Mongolia
Moshio salt		Sea salt	Dried seaweed that is boiled in sea water to form a brine which is then crystalized
Murray River Salt Flakes			Salt from the Australian Murray River basin. Peach-coloured flake salt. The salt contains calcium and magnesium and has a relatively mild taste.
Namibian Salt Pearls		Sea salt	Formed naturally by the Namibian Berg Wind as they tumble on the water's edge
Netarts Bay, Oregon, Salt		Sea salt	Pure flake sea salt is harvested from Netarts Bay on the Oregon Coast by Jacobsen Salt Company, founded in 2011. [9]
Persian Blue Salt		Rock	Extracted from a salt mine in the northern province of Semnan in Iran. The intriguing blue colour occurs during the forming of the salt’s crystalline structure, as intense pressure is exerted on the salt deposits. The individual crystals fracture the light in an unusual way and the resulting blue (which is caused by an optical illusion), becomes visible.
Pickling salt			A fine-grained, non-iodised salt used for pickling
			A Portuguese sea salt extracted from salt pans on the Atlantic coast (PDO)[10]
			An Italian sea salt extracted from the salt pans of Trapani, Paceco and Marsala (PGI)[11]
Sea salt			Generic term for salt derived from evaporation or reduction of sea water. Mineral content varies with locale and drying process.
Sel gris			A French-style sea salt. It tends to be grey in color and somewhat moist.
			A French sea salt from the salt marshes of the Guérande Peninsula (PGI)[12]
Smoked salt		Flavoured or seasoned	Flavor altered by type of wood used or length of smoke process
Sugpo Asin		Sea salt	A Filipino traditional artisanal salt. Sugpo Asin are hollow crystals that are ever-so-slightly-pink due to the shrimp that live in the salt beds from which this particular salt is harvested. It originates from Pangasinan, Philippines.
Tultul		Sea salt	Also known as "dukdok". A Filipino traditional artisanal sea salt made from burning waterlogged driftwood and plant matter. Seawater is then filtered through the ashes and the resulting brine is added to coconut milk and boiled until the water evaporates. It is sold in brick-like lumps. Used as seasoning by scraping over food. It originates from Guimaras island and Capiz, Philippines.
Utah Salt		Rock	From an underground salt deposit in Central Utah. The deposit was left there by an ancient sea that covered much of North America millions of years ago
Yellowstone salt		Rock	From a subterranean deposit brought to the surface by spring water and evaporated

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