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Lentil Fritters

Lentil Fritters

Discover the savory goodness of these crispy lentil fritters, perfect...

RECIPES

By Nina Geraghty

Festive Green Beans with Salt & Pepper

Festive Green Beans

Elevate your holiday table with this vibrant and delicious recipe...

RECIPES

By Nina Geraghty

Mini Chicken Phyllo Pies

Mini Chicken Phyllo Pies

These delightful mini chicken phyllo pies are a perfect blend...

RECIPES

By Nina Geraghty

Candied Salted-Chocolate Clementines

Candied Salted-Chocolate Clementines

Treat yourself to a unique and delectable dessert with candied...

RECIPES

By Nina Geraghty

Is Salt Bad For You - Featured

Is Salt Bad For You?

The push to consume less salt is not only standard...

Health & Wellness

By Mark Myerson

Creamy Butternut Soup with Chilli Salt-Featured

Thick & Creamy Butternut Soup with Chilli Salt

Warm up with a velvety, thick butternut soup that’s elevated...

By Nina Geraghty

Beet Kvass Recipe - Featured

Beet Kvass

Discover the tangy and refreshing taste of homemade beet kvass,...

By Nina Geraghty

Salt & Insomnia - Featured

Salt & Insomnia

We had a great chat with Nick French, who’s an...

Health & Wellness

By Nina Geraghty

Onion Steaks on the Braai - Featured

Onion 'Steaks' on the Braai

Elevate your braai game with these delicious onion steaks, seasoned...

By Nina Geraghty

Salt & Coffee_featured

A Pinch of Salt in Your Coffee?

Ethiopians do it. So do northern Scandinavians. And it seems...

FOR THE FOODIES

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

Roasted Cauliflower Soup Featured

Roasted Cauliflower Soup With Oryx Salt Artisan Bread

Here’s a gorgeously light yet flavourful weekend lunch or dinner;...

By Samantha Skyring

A Recipe for Love and Happiness_Featured

A Recipe for Love and Happiness

For Valentine’s Day, South African food aficionado and gourmand Derick...

By Samantha Skyring

H2O Gin - Featured

Next Gen H20 Gin: goodbye tonic, hello soda

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

By Nina Geraghty

Salt & Pregnancy_Featured

Growing a Baby Needs Salt

The expectant mother, like every human being, needs salt as...

Health & Wellness

By Nina Geraghty

Table Salt vs Natural Salt_Featured

Table Salt vs Natural Salt

Is there a difference? You’d be forgiven for assuming that...

Health & Wellness

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

Sweet Sleep with Salt - Oryx Desert Salt - Featured

Sweet Sleep with Salt

Did you know sodium also plays a part in how...

Health & Wellness

By Nina Geraghty

Women's Menstrual Cycles - The Role of Salt

Women's Menstrual Cycles: the role of salt

The way we experience the days leading up to and...

Health & Wellness

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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