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Gift Salt with a Story

Gift Salt with a Story

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By Nina Geraghty

It's the Season(ing) for the Braai

It's the Season(ing) for the Braai

Heritage Day is around the corner, and that means it’s...

By Nina Geraghty

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Tomato Juice Reinvented: beyond the Bloody Mary

Martin Raubenheimer has always loved tomato juice, particularly as it...

By Nina Geraghty

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Grass-Fed Langside Meats: Where Good Health, Great Flavour & Ethical Farming Meet

Many of us have grown up with a mental picture...

By Nina Geraghty

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A Pinch of Salt in Your Coffee?

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By Nina Geraghty

Santa Anna & Oryx Desert Salt - Featured

Santa Anna's & Oryx Desert Salt: food with gees

Gees is a quintessential Afrikaans word meaning spirit or soul....

By Nina Geraghty

Hook, Line & Sinker - Featured

Hook Line & Sinker: how one artisanal seafood producer is making a splash

Brothers JD and Nick Filmalter have an extensive family background...

By Nina Geraghty

H2O Gin - Featured

Next Gen H20 Gin: goodbye tonic, hello soda

A GIN LIKE NO OTHERYour first encounter with H2O Gin...

By Nina Geraghty

Small Backyard Farmers Add Big Taste to Oryx Desert Salt - Featured

Small Backyard Farmers Add Big Taste to Oryx Desert Salt

Oryx Desert Salt is delighted to announce the launch of...

By Nina Geraghty

Oryx In the News with The Advice Sisters

Sugar & Spice & Salt Are So Nice! They Make Everything Better

As a child, I remember a little rhyme that started...

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By Samantha Skyring

Oryx Desert Salt In The News With Daily Ovation

Oryx Desert salt brings Taste, Health and Social Good to Your Gourmet Experience

In the crowded world of salts and condiments, Oryx Desert...

By Samantha Skyring

Oryx In the News with Food Entrepreneur

Well FEd with The Hatchery's Natalie Shmulik

Join us for a discussion of trends and cool brands...

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By Samantha Skyring

Oryx In the News with Food Business News

Trends spotted at the Summer Fancy Food Show

NEW YORK — Truffles, heirloom tomatoes and new spins on...

By Samantha Skyring

The Poetry of Taste: Why It Matters Which Salt You Use

The Poetry of Taste: Why It Matters Which Salt You Use

Believe it or not, it’s still a mystery to science...

FOR THE FOODIES

By Nina Geraghty

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The Sweet, The Bitter, The Sour, The Umami: How Salt Makes Everything Taste Better

Like wine, salt has its own ‘terroir’, and is uniquely...

FOR THE FOODIES

By Nina Geraghty

Oryx In the News Premier Magazine

Premier Magazine - The Power Of Salt

Why do we love it? There’s a reason we have...

FOR THE FOODIES

By Nina Geraghty

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Salt Is Our Love-Crush

It’s February – the month of Love. And oh, how...

FOR THE FOODIES

By Nina Geraghty

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Raising The Bar On Bread

‘Bread is all about culture,’ says Francois Zietsman, owner of...

By Nina Geraghty

Vegan Salt Featured

7 Hidden Non-Vegan Ingredients: Read The Label!

November 1st is world vegan day and did you know...

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By Nina Geraghty

Please Pass The Salt

Please Pass The Salt

We’re hardwired to crave salt for one reason only –...

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By Nina Geraghty

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ESSENTIAL FOR THE LIFE YOU WANT TO LIVE

Mineral-rich flavour enhancing your vitality

Pure desert salt from a unique ancient salt deposit in the pristine Kalahari, Southern Africa.

Unprocessed. Unpolluted. Uncompromised.

Naturally organic, sun-dried, clean and unrefined. A sustainable, underground salt lake-free from pharmaceutical & industrial contamination and micro-plastics.

Full-flavoured Madagascan pepper

Hand-harvested, vibrant, fresh, grown without chemicals, and the perfect complement to our mineral-rich desert salt.

Refillable.
Reusable.
Real value.

#RefillNotLandfill

Long-lasting ceramic mechanism - no plastic grinding into your food and cost effective

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100% PURE, CRYSTAL-WHITE,
NATURAL DESERT SALT

Partner Collaborations

Just as it existed when traded ounce for ounce for gold eight thousand years ago. We add nothing and we take nothing away.

As an owner-managed brand (OMB), Oryx Desert Salt appreciates and supports other OMBs by actively promoting local brands. It’s part of our philosophy that understands we don’t operate in isolation. We enjoy collaborating with other like-minded brands because we’re all on the same journey; helping to create a better world through what we produce and the ecologically-aligned way we produce it

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.

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.

SUSTAINABLE & RENEWABLE

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 km². 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’.

Ancient Pristine Source

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.

LOVED BY INTERNATIONAL CHEFS

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.

GIVING BACK

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