Sea Salt, Fleur de Sel de Guerande - 1/2 cup, 3.5 oz

Fleur de sel is a hand-harvested sea salt collected by workers who scrape only the top layer of salt before it sinks to the bottom of large salt pans. The name comes from the flower-like patterns of crystals in the salt crust. Traditional French fleur de sel is collected off the coast of Brittany, Noirmoutier, and Camargue. This salt is often slightly grey due to the sandy minerals collected in the process of harvesting the salt from the pans. On occasion, the presence of Dunaliella salina (a type of pink micro-algae commonly found in salt marshes) can give it a light pink tint.