Throughout history, salt has been an essential ingredient, prized for its ability to preserve food and enhance flavors. From ancient trade routes to modern kitchens, salt remains a staple in culinary practices worldwide. However, conventional table salt often contains additives and lacks the natural trace minerals found in unrefined salts, raising concerns among health-conscious consumers and practitioners.
Our latest functional food product, Pink Salt Complete, is a botanically fortified pink salt that elevates culinary wellness while enhancing the nutritional profile of pink salt. Combining pure, solar-dried Hawaiian Alaea clay pink salt with an exclusive organic blend known as the 'Plant Matrix,' this functional food offers a healthier, flavorful alternative. Expertly blended with whole foods and nutrient-dense botanicals, Pink Salt Complete includes essential vitamins, minerals, and an array of phytonutrients with every pinch.
The Science and the Story of Pink Salt Complete
Acquiring its diverse array of essential trace minerals from its ancient volcanic source, Hawaiian Alaea red clay-derived pink salt offers a perfect balance of flavor and health benefits. The Orgavitaz® plant vitamin matrix blend is intentionally formulated and sustainably crafted on organically certified farms committed to regenerative agriculture practices, capturing and retaining the nutrient vitality of whole foods and botanicals in every harvest. It includes 17 well-known foods and botanicals, such as moringa leaf, amla berry, holy basil, and green tea leaves, as well as natural vitamin D sources like lichen, shiitake, and oyster mushrooms.
For health-conscious consumers and PRL practitioners, Orgavitaz emphasizes the importance of sustainability, traceability, and bioavailability. They ensure product identity through DNA fingerprinting and third-party monitored identity programs. Their sustainability initiatives include the CEORA program, ICS Livelihood Mission, and Climate Smart Interventions. Traceability is maintained through organic stewardship, food safety, and GMP standards.1 Bioavailability is supported by real-time stability studies, active cellular nutrition, and clinical studies, ensuring the safety and efficacy of their products. Orgavitaz's holistic approach guarantees superior vitamins, minerals, and cofactors in their most potent and beneficial forms, promoting overall health and well-being.
Orgavitaz is passionate about creating nutrient-rich ingredients through a meticulous and innovative development process. They ensure only the highest quality raw materials by curating extensive collections of botanicals, beneficial microbes, and marine compounds. Using advanced agricultural practices such as organic seed development and plant metabolite engineering, Orgavitaz enhances the natural potency of its ingredients. Their pioneering bio-transformations utilize biological systems to boost the effectiveness and bioavailability of vitamins and probiotics. Additionally, their commitment to green chemistry ensures environmentally friendly solutions. Cutting-edge techniques like lyophilization and microbial fermentation are employed to perfect ingredient extraction and maintain stability, delivering optimal health benefits in every product. 2
More Flavor, More Protection
Results from a recent in vitro study suggest that sea salts flavored with Mediterranean herbs and fruits can prevent cholesterol and phospholipid membrane oxidation and reduce free radicals in the body.3 The study evaluated the antioxidant activity of commercial sea salts flavored with Mediterranean herbs and fruits compared to regular table salt, highlighting the potential antioxidant role and health benefits of using flavored sea salts in foods instead of regular table salt. Flavored salts emerged as rich sources of phenolic compounds, providing significant antioxidant activity and potential health benefits.
Food lipid peroxidation leads to quality deterioration and health risks associated with forming toxic oxidative compounds. Dietary antioxidants, found naturally in fruits and spices/herbs, exert a protective role in disease development and human health by preventing oxidative degradation of lipids. Salt (sodium chloride) is widely used for its flavor-enhancing and preservative properties. Still, it can accelerate lipid oxidation, and excessive sodium consumption is linked to an increased risk of cardiovascular diseases and oxidative stress. This study underscores the potential benefits of using botanically infused flavored salts. Pink Salt Complete is formulated to revitalize every meal with nutrients, antioxidants, and tons of flavor!
Less Sodium, More Nutrients
Recent studies highlight that adding high-flavor ingredients such as aromatic plants, mustards, and vinegars during food preparation can reduce the need to add salt, helping decrease overall salt intake.4 Using herbs and spices can impart distinctive flavors and enhance the salty taste perception, allowing less salt to be used without compromising flavor.
Aromatic plants (spices and herbs) enhance flavor and provide health benefits, including antioxidant protection and inflammation modulation. These ingredients offer a variety of nutrients, including protein, fiber, essential oils, vitamins, minerals, and phytochemicals, which contribute to optimal health.
Enhanced Salty Perception for Those Needing it Most
Patients with hyposmia (reduced olfactory function) often show a significant decrease in sweet, salty, and sour taste perception compared to healthy controls.3 Interestingly, flavored sea salt exhibited an equal intensity to pure sea salt in patients with hyposmia despite containing approximately 15% less sodium chloride. This confirms the role of spices and herbs in enhancing salty perception, making botanically fortified flavored salts a viable strategy for reducing salt intake while maintaining flavor.
Using herbs and spices as salt enhancers in foods with low salt content can increase consumer satisfaction and food palatability while reducing salt, fat, and energy intake. Herbs and spices rich in phytochemicals with anti-inflammatory effects have been demonstrated as a potential strategy for those with a partial (hyposmia) or total loss (ageusia) of their sense of smell with a reduction or total loss of taste and smell.5
Why is Pink Salt Complete?
- Trace Minerals & Phytonutrients: Delivers 39 sea salt-derived trace minerals and an array of phytonutrients from 17 whole foods and nutrient-dense botanicals.
- Vitamins & Antioxidants: Each ¼ teaspoon of this botanically infused sea salt delivers essential vitamins (B complex, D3, K), antioxidant nutrients (A, C, E), bioactive minerals (zinc, selenium, chromium), and over 39 crucial trace minerals.
- Healthier Alternative: A healthier alternative to table salt, free from "anti-clumping" agents and non-nutritive additives.
- Antioxidant Protection: Besides flavor, this functional food blend of botanically infused pink salt provides antioxidant support, enhancing food quality and health benefits.
Sourced with Intention
- Pristine Sourcing: Known for its purifying, mineral-rich properties, we source solar-dried and 100% pure Hawaiian Alaea red clay-derived sea salt from its ancient volcanic origins.
- OPTICALLY CLEAN®: Processed to examine each grain of salt, remove unwanted materials, and ensure pure, unadulterated salt that meets and exceeds the highest food industry standards.
- Sustainably Sourced: The Orgavitaz® plant vitamin matrix includes 17 foods and botanicals, sustainably grown on organically certified farms in India using regenerative agricultural techniques, which impart the most vibrant and bioavailable essential nutrients and phytochemicals with every harvest.1
- Non-GMO, Gluten-Free, Vegan-Friendly: Free from artificial additives, each batch is tested for heavy metals and contaminants.
An Extra-Ordinary Every Day Ingredient
Pink Salt Complete is perfect for cooking, baking, and direct application, enhancing flavors while providing the added nutrient benefits of the organic Plant Matrix blend. It harnesses the natural energy of unrefined, solar-dried Hawaiian Alaea red clay and the nutrient-rich vitality of the Orgavitaz® plant vitamin matrix, delivering a synergistic boost of nourishing vitamins and protective antioxidants. This functional food supports electrolyte balance and provides essential nutrients with every meal. However, it's vital to monitor salt intake closely for those with kidney, heart, or liver issues or anyone on a sodium-restricted diet.
Concerned about adequate vitamin and mineral intake, especially for kids and picky eaters? This dynamic pink salt formulation offers more vitamins, minerals, and flavor while delivering less sodium per serving. Pink Salt Complete is more than just a salt—it's a functional food powerhouse. Each ¼ teaspoon of our organically and sustainably sourced, botanically infused sea salt delivers essential vitamins: vitamin B complex, vitamin D3, vitamin K, antioxidant nutrients (A, C, and E), bioactive minerals (zinc, selenium, chromium), and over 39 crucial trace minerals. Embrace the nutritional power and botanically fortified flavor of Pink Salt Complete and elevate culinary wellness at every meal.
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References:
- Orgavitaz®. Available at: https://orgavitaz.com/sustainability/. Accessed on 7/23/2024.
- Orgavitaz®. Available at: https://orgavitaz.com/science-behind-orgavitaz/. Accessed on 7/23/2024.
- Rosa A, Putzu D, Atzeri A, et al. Sea salts with Mediterranean Herbs & Fruits prevent Cholesterol & Phospholipid Membrane Oxidation & Cell Free Radical Generation. European Journal of Lipid Science & Technology. 2018: Short Communication. Available at: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ejlt.201700323. Accessed on 7/18/2024.
- Rosa A, Pinna I, Piras A, Porcedda S, Masala C. Flavoring of sea salt with Mediterranean aromatic plants affects salty taste perception. J Sci Food Agric. 2022;102(13):6005-6013. doi:10.1002/jsfa.11953. Available at: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9540657/. Accessed on 7/18/2024.
- Rosa A, Loy F, Pinna I, Masala C. Role of Aromatic Herbs and Spices in Salty Perception of Patients with Hyposmia. Nutrients. 2022;14(23):4976. Published 2022 Nov 23. doi:10.3390/nu14234976. Available at: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36501005/. Accessed on 7/18/2024.
Jenny Perez is an herbal educator, researcher, and writer who has been immersed in the field of nutrition and botanical medicine for more than 20 years. Jenny has created curriculum, content, and educational materials for Quantum Nutrition Labs, Premier Research Labs, the American Botanical Council, and Bastyr University’s Botanical Medicine Department where she was Adjunct Faculty, Herb Garden Manager, and Director of the Holistic Landscape Design certificate program.
