About Oryx Desert Salt
Sustainably harvested from an ancient, unpolluted underground salt lake in the Kalahari - pure, mineral-rich, and naturally full of flavour.
Naturally Organic
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Benefits of Oryx Desert Salt
GREAT TASTE
Salt may be the smallest ingredient in any meal, yet it has the biggest impact. Oryx Desert Salt has a unique taste that’s well rounded with a mineral-rich flavour that artisanal food makers, chefs and bakers love.
Its distinctive flavour profile means you use less salt for a more enriched flavour and we’ve created exclusive flavoured salts which offer exciting and unusual taste experiences:
100% PURE, CRYSTAL-WHITE, NATURAL DESERT SALT
Just as it existed when traded ounce for ounce for gold eight thousand years ago. We add nothing and we take nothing away.
SUNDRIED, UNREFINED, NO ADDITIVES
As nature intended - no additives, no anti-clumping agents, no preservatives. Dried by the hot African desert sun. Unrefined and unprocessed. The underground brine lake is 100% saturated, so it takes only 4 weeks for the salt to crystalise in our main harvest season in summer when the
temperatures reach up to 47o.
LOVED BY INTERNATIONAL CHEFS
Oryx Desert Salt has a unique and exceptional taste, which enhances and enriches the flavour of your food. Chefs from around the world taste the difference. "No dish at Restaurant is complete without a pinch of Oryx Desert Salt." - Jan Hendrik - South Africa's first Michelin-star chef "ORYX desert salt is a great food salt. I use it as a salt on a day to day basis, as well as a finishing salt. The salt is everything I look for when it comes to flavour." - Craig Cormack, SALT restaurant, Waterford Wine Estate, Somerset West.
SUSTAINABLE & RENEWABLE
The underground streams converge and replenish an ancient underground lake of 55 million tons from which the salt water is pumped, laid on the pan under the hot Kalahari sun and sun-dried. This process lives in harmony with the natural rainfall and the surrounding environment. We only
extract what nature provides.
GIVING BACK
The success of our business is built on strong partnerships and suppliers. We believe in impact sourcing; supporting
small, often women-owned businesses, suppliers who engage in community upliftment such as Backyard farms who supply our chillies and independent co-operative farmers who produce our Madagascan pepper. We also build collaborative relationships with chefs and cooking schools. We give back through contributing to Kalahari First Nation Khomani San and Mier communities via the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park and Project Biome, a regenerative, Earth-rewilding program.
FROM AN ANCIENT & PRISTINE SOURCE
The ancient Dwyka rock formations, through which the underground streams flow, are geo-scientifically tested to be 250-300 million years old. The 50km2 salt pan is situated in the Kalahari Desert of 900,000km2, inside the Kalahari Basin which spans an area of 2.5 million km?. 50km's south of Botswana and +-250km north of Upington. A remote, pristine and beautiful area. The name KALAHARI is derived from the Tswana word Kgalagadi, meaning 'the great thirst'.
Health & Wellness
SALT IN THE BODY
We have salt in every cell of our bodies – about 250 grams (a cupful) in an adult human.
That’s why our tears and sweat taste salty.
Salt plays a crucial role in keeping our bodies functioning properly. When we exercise, when we’re hot, and when we’re going through physiological changes, such as pregnancy or growing old, its role becomes even more fundamental. Most crucially, it maintains the balance of our fluids, which carry oxygen and nutrients around our bodies
The two elements of salt – sodium and chloride – each play a variety of crucial roles in our bodies.
Honouring the Earth
Oryx Desert Salt has a vision: to be the world’s leading supplier of ethical, locally produced, pure, unprocessed, health-giving Kalahari salt; and to harvest and package the salt in an ecologically-aligned way.
We refuse to keep taking and consuming without consideration for future generations. That’s why we harvest our salt from an ever-replenishing, renewable source in the Kalahari Desert, located within South Africa.
It was discovered beneath a 50km2 salt pan that three underground streams converge and replenish an ancient underground salt aquifer of 55 million tons from which the salt water is deposited into pans under the hot Kalahari sun and sun-dried. This process lives in harmony with the natural rainfall and the surrounding environment. We only extract what nature provides.
We aim to keep reducing our carbon footprint by paying attention to our packaging and supporting local businesses where ever we can.