San Francisco Salt Company started on Pier 39 with one product and one conviction: great salt changes the way people cook. Since pioneering Sherpa Pink® Himalayan Salt two decades ago, we've evolved into a strategic flavor partner, providing home cooks with the tools to master their craft and delivering the industrial muscle our B2B partners need to scale their vision.
A Smarter Way to Salt
San Francisco Salt Company was born on the West Coast with a simple mission: to source the purest, highest-quality sea salts in the world. But as our partners—from home chefs to industrial food manufacturers—grew, we also had to grow to meet your demand.
Today, we’ve expanded beyond our coastal origins to become a fully integrated culinary innovation partner. While our heart remains in San Francisco, our operations are anchored by a Central Innovation & Distribution Hub in the heart of the U.S. This strategic location allows us to deliver rapidly to any kitchen in the country, ensuring your ingredients arrive faster and fresher.
Chef-Led, Scientist-Backed.
We believe salt is the most critical ingredient in the kitchen. That is why our in-house R&D kitchen and lab are dedicated to the practice of Culinology—the seamless blending of culinary arts with food science.
Every gourmet blend and proprietary flavor profile is cultivated by our chef and food scientist.
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For Home Chefs
Foolproof, clean-label artisan blends that instantly elevate everyday meals.
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For B2B Partners
Deep technical depth, including sensory analysis, proprietary formulations, and rigorous shelf-life testing.
We didn't grow by chasing trends.
We grew by being right about what matters in a kitchen.
We believe every meal deserves the right salt, and every cook deserves to know why.
That's not a marketing line. It's the reason we explain grain size on every product page. The reason our culinary chef writes every recipe with technique in mind. The reason we hold SQF Quality Code certification that most food companies never pursue.
Salt is the oldest seasoning in human history. We treat it that way.
We Don't Just Source Salt. We Obsess Over It.
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SQF Quality Code Certified
The Safe Quality Food (SQF) certification is the highest food safety standard in the industry, is reserved for ready-to-eat food manufactures like us. Every product that leaves our facility has passed rigorous food safety, sanitation, and quality audits. Others don’t have it. We do.
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Authentic Cold-Smoking
Our smoked salts are cold-smoked over real hardwood, Alderwood, Applewood, Cherrywood, and Hickory. Cold-smoking preserves the delicate smoke aromatics without cooking or altering the salt's mineral structure. No liquid smoke. No artificial smoke flavoring. Ever. You can taste the difference. Our competitors' customers can too.
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In-House R&D
Most specialty food brands outsource their formulation. We don't. Our food scientist and culinary chef work in the same lab, on the same products, with the same standards. That means every organic blend, every smoked salt, every custom formulation has been developed, tested, and approved internally before it ever reaches a customer.
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Traceable Origins
We don't just know where our salts come from, we can tell you the specific marsh, mine, or coastline. French Grey and Fleur de Sel from the Guérande salt marshes of Brittany. Sherpa Pink from the Khewra Salt Mine in Pakistan. Cyprus Flake from the Mediterranean. Mediterranean Sea Salt from solar evaporation along the Mediterranean coastline. Provenance isn't marketing. It's quality control.
The Minds Behind the Minerals.
United by a love for flavor science and real cooking.
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Food ScientistClaireClaire’s focus is driving flavor innovation through science.She specializes in developing custom blend formulations that keep up withconsumer trends. From matching complex flavor profiles to scaling new formulasfor production, she manages the technical details that ensure our salt blendsmeet the highest standards of taste and safety. She takes pride in leading atalented development team dedicated to pushing the boundaries of what a gourmetsalt company can provide.
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Culinary Chef & Lab TechnicianKaitlynKaitlyn is the person who answers the question every SFSalt customer has: what do I cook with this? As our culinary chef and lab technician, she tests every product in real cooking scenarios, from weeknight dinners to plated fine dining applications, and translates the science of salt into recipes and techniques anyone can use. She's the author behind our recipe content, the voice in our cooking demos, and the reason our product descriptions tell you exactly which dishes each salt was made for.
Our Certifications
SQF Quality Code Certified, Safe Quality Food Level certification, the highest standard in the food industry
Organic Certified, FDA-certified organic for all blended salts and Turkey Brine products
Kosher Certified, All products
Non-GMO Compliant, All products
Gluten-Free, All products
BPA-Free | Free of PFAS | Allergen-Free | Pesticide-Free, All products