Salina Rio Maior Natural Salt 500 g

Salina Rio Maior Natural Salt 500 g is a Portuguese natural salt from the inland salt pans of Rio Maior, made from an underground spring of brine. This is the everyday salt for the kitchen, for cooking water, roasts and anything that needs proper seasoning.

Flavour and texture

Natural salt from the Rio Maior pans is harvested after the brine has dried in the sun, without additives. The crystals are coarser and more robust than flor de sal, with a full, straightforward saltiness that holds up well in cooking.

Food pairing

Use it for pasta and potato water, salting a whole fish or a roast, brining olives or making a salt crust for sea bream. Save the flor de sal for the table.

About the Rio Maior salt pans

The salt pans of Rio Maior lie inland, about 30 km from the sea, north of Santarém. Salt has been made here for centuries from an underground well of brine about seven times saltier than the ocean, spread in shallow pans and dried by the sun. In 2025 Sal de Rio Maior was granted EU Protected Designation of Origin status.

Good to know

• Store in a dry place with the lid closed. Salt keeps indefinitely.
• 500 g pack.
• Pick it up at our shop in Graça.