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Maldon Garlic Sea Salt Flakes, Wild and Roasted Garlic, 3.5 oz
$9.49
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Product Details
Maldon's hand-harvested pyramid salt flakes blended with real garlic — 94% sea salt flakes, with dried wild garlic and roasted garlic making up the rest. The flakes stay light and crunchy and crush between your fingers, carrying the garlic with them.
Maldon describe the taste as savoury and aromatic, with garlic depth on a light flake. It is a finishing salt first: the crunch is the point, and it is lost if the flakes dissolve into a dough or a brine.
Ingredients
Nutrition Information
| About 138 servings per container | |
|---|---|
| Serving size | 1/4 tsp (0.7g) |
| Calories | 0 |
| Total Fat | 0g (0% DV) |
| Sodium | 580mg (24% DV) |
| Total Carbohydrate | 0g (0% DV) |
| Protein | 0g (0% DV) |
| Not a significant source of saturated fat, trans fat, cholesterol, dietary fiber, total sugars, added sugars, vitamin D, calcium, iron, and potassium. | |
Allergen Information
May contain traces of nuts, almonds, brazil nuts, cashew nuts, chestnuts, hazelnuts, filberts, macadamia nuts, pecan nuts, pistachio nuts, walnuts, peanuts, sesame, mustard, celery, milk, soya, gluten and the occasional wild garlic stalk.
Manufacturers can change formulations at any time, so always read the physical label before consuming.
Manufacturers can change formulations at any time, so always read the physical label before consuming.
Maldon Garlic Sea Salt Flakes, Wild and Roa...
$9.49
Questions About This Product
The things people actually want to know before they cook with it.
Is Maldon Garlic Sea Salt gluten free?
Maldon make no gluten-free claim for it, and the label advisory specifically lists gluten among the possible traces. Nothing in the ingredient list is a gluten source — it is salt and garlic — so the risk is cross-contact in the facility rather than an ingredient. If you are coeliac, treat it as unsuitable unless you contact Maldon directly, and use a salt carrying a certified gluten-free mark instead.
How much actual garlic is in it?
Six percent. The label breaks it down as sea salt flakes 94%, dried wild garlic 3% and roasted garlic 3%. That is a seasoning salt, not a garlic product — if you want garlic to carry a dish, this will over-salt it long before it tastes strongly of garlic.
Is this the same as the garlic salt in the supermarket spice aisle?
No. Ordinary garlic salt is usually fine or granular salt blended with garlic powder, sometimes with an anti-caking agent. This is Maldon's pyramid flakes with two forms of real garlic — dried wild garlic and roasted garlic — and no anti-caking agent. The practical difference is texture: the flakes stay crunchy on top of finished food instead of dissolving in, which is the whole reason to buy it.
What is wild garlic, and how is it different from ordinary garlic?
Wild garlic is the leaf of a different plant from the garlic bulb you buy in a supermarket. It has a greener, milder, more chive-like flavour rather than the sharp pungency of a crushed clove. This salt uses both — dried wild garlic for that grassy note and roasted garlic for the deeper, sweeter one.
There is a small stalk in my salt. Is that a fault?
No, and Maldon say so on the label — the allergen advisory ends with the words the occasional wild garlic stalk. It is a piece of the plant the salt is blended with, not a foreign object. Pick it out if you would rather not eat it.
How much sodium is in it?
580 mg per quarter teaspoon, which is 24% of the daily value, and the 3.5 oz box holds about 138 of those servings. By weight it is no different from any other salt — it is sodium chloride either way. The flakes are bulkier though, so a quarter teaspoon of these weighs less than a quarter teaspoon of table salt, and a pinch between your fingers is a smaller dose than the same pinch of fine salt.
Should I cook with it or only sprinkle it at the end?
Both work, but the flake is only worth paying for at the end. Stirred into a sauce, a brine or a dough, the crunch dissolves and you have paid a premium for ordinary salt with a little garlic in it. Maldon suggest it on meats, vegetables, pasta and dressings, and on things like garlic bread and buttery new potatoes where you would otherwise reach for salt and garlic separately.
Is the 3.5 oz box the same salt as the 1.1 lb tub?
Yes, same product in a different pack. Maldon sell this garlic salt as a 100 g box and as a 1.1 lb tub. The box is the one most people want; the tub makes sense for a kitchen going through it steadily, since it is salt and will not spoil in a cool, dry cupboard.
Is it vegan?
Yes. Maldon list it as suitable for vegans and vegetarians. The ingredients are sea salt and two forms of garlic, with nothing animal-derived in the list. Note the traces advisory does mention milk, so if you avoid dairy for allergy reasons rather than dietary ones, that is worth knowing.
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