The Guérande salt ponds are classified in France as a national treasure, where ancestral methods
thousands of years old are used to gather gray sea salt and fleur de sel.

            FLEUR DE SEL                                                                    Aerial View of Guérande Salt Ponds                                            "GROS SEL" or Coarse Gray Sea Salt

When  the wind in Guérande  blows from the east, fine crystals form on the surface                    Coarse salt crystals are formed on the bottom of the salt pond. Using a large rake
of  the salt pond, forming "fleur de sel" or literally, "flower of salt". Fleur de sel, with                  like tool, the salt gatherer detaches the crystals which he hauls out of the water         
its subtle taste of violets, is wonderful used at the table to replace ordinary table salt.                 and piles into a pyramid shape to dry. Each salt pond section produces approximately
Several grains of this high end product suffice for flavoring an individual serving. At                    50 kg per day. Coarse gray Guérande salt replaces ordinary table salt in cooking,
harvest,  fleur de sel is pale pink in color. It becomes white after drying naturally in                    adding more trace minerals to your diet and reducing sodium chloride intake.
the sun and only 1 kg is produced for every 80 kg of coarse sea salt.

                                                                               GUERANDE SEA SALT ANALYSIS for Brittany Sea Salt