In Croatia that would be the salt from [Solana Pag](https://solana-pag.hr/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/a452c67903c563e2f8c7-1024×683.jpeg). Pag is an island in Northern Dalmatia and right next to the medieval town of Pag there is a [shallow bay](https://horvatpag.com/hr/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2018/01/bazeni-soli-pag-apartmani-horvat.jpg) where salt is being extracted for the last thousand years and maybe even since the Roman times. Most famous Croatian cheese called [Paški sir](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pag_cheese) is also made on the island from sheeps milk. Pretty remarkable for an island with less than 10 000 people.

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  1. >common salt brand

    Should perhaps be [JuraSel](https://produkte.migros.ch/jurasel-speisesalz-mit-jod-und-fluor), from the Jura mountain ranges naming the famed Jurassic era.

    However, there’s no way I’m going to purchase salt which is 3 times the price of no-name salt including the same additives as a branded salt. I mean, there’s absolutely 0 research or so in it, the “Added Value” is just plain marketing and CEO boni.

  2. I’d say La Baleine, with salt coming from Guérande near Nantes.

    Although it’s for retail only. I don’t remember to have ever seen a restaurant serve it.

  5. Jozo, Falksalt and Seltin.

    Falksalt have many different kind but most of the salt is from the Mediterranean, dunno where. Himalayasalt is from Punjab and Pakistan. And seltin is produced in Sweden, whatever that means.

  6. Either a supermarket’s own brand or Saxa. Having just looked it up, Saxa is mined in Cheshire, England. Saxa is owned by British Salt, who appear to supply most supermarkets too, it turns out Cheshire has a long history of salt working dating back to at least Roman times (I had no idea).

  7. Bad Ischler salt probably. From Bad Ischl in the Alps unsurprisingly.

    At least that’s the first that comes to my mind.

  9. Bad Ischler in Austria, whatever off brand salt you find in the supermarkets in Hungary. Though I have to say, the Greek brand Kalas sea salt is very popular in Hungary

  10. Most common brand of Finland is probably [Meira,](https://meira.fi/en/salts/) who have many varieties of salts. However it seems that they only pack those salts and depending of the type they originally come from Germany, Spain or Denmark.

  11. From Piran (Sečovlje) salterns.
    Sečovlje salterns are also in a shallow bay (actually used to be a delta of the Dragonja (spicy border dispute alert)), and in parts they still produce salt in the traditional way. Apparently this makes for a better and more expensive salt.

    An interesting connection with Pag saltern is the special way of growing salt cristals on floating alge mat (small unicellular algae make a thin invisible mat on the surface of the brine), and if you scoop this up carefully you get pristine salt that never touched the mud (its called salt flower -solni cvet), which is, allegedly, some of the best salt available (the algae give some flavour and colour, so its often pinkish/orangish).
    I do not know if Pag still makes salt by hand this way (any machinisation is out of the quiestion as the salt sinks with too much disturbance), but I was told at my uni (biology) this was not a common way of making salt in the ye olden times, and is even rarer now, and the prof new only of Piran and Pag salterns still having the kind of alga neededd for this.

    (for people who like birds, a large portion of the salterns are abandoned or traditionally managed and have become a safe haven for wildlife, especially waterbirds; for many of them this is the first stop where they can feed after crossing Europe going south, or the last feeding place before going back, its warm enough many overwinter, and there are some rare and important birds nesting there)

  12. I guess it’s “La Baleine”.
    The whale
    From salt marshes in Camargue on the Mediterranean coast or Guérande on the Atlantic coast

  14. I’d say Solné mlýny Olomouc (Olomouc salt mills) from Olomouc, though from what I’m reading the salt itself comes from Bernburg, Germany.

  16. I don’t think there is any? Honestly, I have never before thought about brands of salt. I guess I’d just buy something cheap, so probably some store brand. Though we have our own salt mines and they definitely have their own brands, maybe they’re popular.

  17. Frankly, we don’t have a clear favourite here. Quite a lot of people prefer a specific salt (sea salt, pan salt, himalaya salt, iodised salt, whatever) and the brands and countries of origin do differ. But in stores I seem to see a lot of:

    * **Finland**, or at least branded as such. [Pansuola](https://sinuteek.ee/images/76f84e03-9f05-48e4-93ce-f7e864964273_4efeadb100b7d19c5e1cfd61fc851dad27fe3aa2707973248572011d7841bde6.jpg?w=630&h=840&wm=1) might be actually made there, but [Meira](https://frenchgourmand.eu/3055-large_default/meresool-peeneteraline-meira-800g.jpg) seems to be only packaged there, no idea where it’s from.
    * **Belarussia**, or at least it seems that most of [Taproban](https://www.google.com/search?q=TAPROBAN+peensool&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwit_POAxtz1AhUOwgIHHVoKDiQQ2-cCegQIABAA&oq=TAPROBAN+peensool&gs_lcp=CgNpbWcQA1DgB1iNEWDBEmgAcAB4AIABXIgB9gWSAQE5mAEAoAEBqgELZ3dzLXdpei1pbWfAAQE&sclient=img&ei=pCD4Ya2aOo6Ei-gP2pS4oAI&bih=559&biw=1280&hl=en-US) salts are from there. Once again, no idea if it’s the actual country of origin.
    * **Slovenia** seems to be behind [Morska Sol](https://cdn.barbora.ee/products/629ace32-6c4e-4d01-ad91-f6d9807fec96_m.png), interesting as they’re so far away!
    * And ofc [Santa Maria](https://rimibaltic-res.cloudinary.com/image/upload/b_white,c_fit,f_auto,h_480,q_auto,w_480/d_ecommerce:backend-fallback.png/MAT_191169_PCE_EE) and I don’t think anyone knows where that is from. It said **Denmark** somewhere.

  19. I don’t think there is a popular brand in Spain. Salt is cheap so people buy the supermarket brand often.

    Sea salt is the most common type I think, so it comes from the sea.

  24. Here in Lithuania there are various brands, most often Belarusian (mined) or Slovenian (sea). One Belarusian brand was very forthright with the labelling, it said:

    EDIBLE ROCK

    SALT

    so now my family sometimes refers to Belarusian salt as “edible rock”.

  26. Bad Reichenhaller, the blue one, is the only salt I have ever used or seen my family use. It’s one of those things that never occurred to me. I supposed some other people might be using store-brand salt.

  27. There’s no particular brand which stands out as “the most common”, it’s just salt of “extra” category with added iodine. Most of the salt comes from lake Baskunchak, salinity of the lake is on par with Dead Sea. And the second most popular source is Sol-Iletsk, basically it’s hundreds millions tons of pure salt hidden underground.

  28. I think people just buy generic supermarket salt, but one brand I do recognize is Vatel, particularly their cylindrical tubs.

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