AN AGREEMENT WITH SALINES DE FORMENTERA HAS ALLOWED THE SALINAS DEL CARMEN ENTERING THE INTERNATIONAL MARKET.

Fuerteventura foam salt produced in the Salinas del Carmen, municipality of Antigua, Fuerteventura, following a process completely natural and artisan, It has made the leap to the international market within an agreement between the Island Council, managing body of the salt Museum where the product is obtained, and Salines de Formentera, specializing in the marketing of gourmet products.

The salt produced in the Salinas del Carmen is a first quality and healthy product, a fact that has been confirmed through laboratory analysis. It is also unique, According to ∆l from foam that overflows in the rompederos salt, a process that, explains David road, “It gives this salt's unique qualities as a higher mineralization and does to keep its most noble elements. The result is a light and crispy salt, fine-grained and soft tones on the palate, able to enhance the flavor of any food. Without a doubt, the best salt among all the artisanal salt of Canary Islands”.

Uniting tradition and innovation is part of Fuerteventura brand and the values of the reserve of the biosphere, a distinction that is reflected in the new product image. In addition to promoting the product, It is recover the tradition of the craft of the salt maker to create employment. The two salt workers of the salt Museum has joined other young salinero within the Convention with Salines de Formentera e, even, raises will soon incorporate a fourth worker.

Part of the agreement between the Council and Salines de Formentera have been incorporating technical innovations to adapt produced salt to the maximum quality standards requiring an international gourmet product. This process has enabled to significantly improve a product that is first line by itself. Improvements in the technique of obtaining have allowed to completely eliminate the bitterness of salt, is now much more white - suppressed freckles of sand -, and cleaning of the cuts have resulted in a much more balanced mineralized.

Analyses have shown that, compared to a conventional salt, Fuerteventura salt of foam has ten times more magnesium, seven times more sulfate (magnesium and sulphur, two minerals necessary for human beings, but that in recent decades have been disappearing from the food chain, due to the overexploitation of the soil), and four times more potassium (diuretic ore that counteracts the effects of sodium).

The levels of sodium salt of foam, It is the component associated with the damage associated with salt, It is smaller than the conventional commercial salt. In this sense it could be described, like the Natural liquid salt from Formentera, as a salt medicinal gourmet, containing five times less sodium than any other salt, Eighty per cent less. It also has high levels of unique marine trace elements such as boron, Strontium, Zinc and manganese. It maintains a very balanced and soft taste on the palate, undone quickly in the mouth without a trace of drying.

Salt foam will be promoted and marketed jointly with salt from Formentera, Thanks to the experience in the sector that provides this entity, with products like the natural liquid salt from Formentera, and with channels of marketing already in operation in several European countries, mainly France, and gourmet shops. Expectations for its marketing are directed to the best gourmet of Europe and State and Canarian supermarkets of higher quality.

The new package consists of a salt shaker of ceramic with Cork top, culminating a concept of ecological product at all stages of the process. Both the container and the labelling denote an image cared for exclusive product. The aesthetics of the container is similar to the line of image of salt from Formentera. The new format includes traditional salina logo, and it says that it comes from an island declared reserve of the biosphere.

It also includes an explanation of its natural features and about the traditional process to obtain. The Natural salt of foam Marina of Fuerteventura is the result of crystallization in the foam dry salt marine, generated by natural beating of the waves on the rocks caused by strong trade winds, hitch the foam of the sea to more of 4 metres to the saltadero of the salinas. Minerals and trace elements most noble of salt accumulate in large numbers in the foam of the sea, hydrogen peroxide in turn by the strong dynamics of waves. It's a unique worldwide exceptional natural salt.