TRUFF — Black Truffle Salt
At a glance
| Brand | TRUFF |
| Producer, as labelled | Sauce Ventures, LLC, Costa Mesa, California (distributor, as labelled) |
| Origin | Costa Mesa, California — distributor; salt and truffle origins not stated, United States |
| Type | Sea salt, black truffle blend |
| Ingredients, verbatim | Sea Salt, Black Truffle Concentrate, and Black Truffle [Tuber Aestivum] |
| Net weight | 150 g · 5.3 oz |
| Serving | ¼ tsp (1.5 g) · 100 per container |
| Sodium per serving | 582 mg · 25% DV |
| Sodium per gram, computed | 388 mg (band 370–405) · 99% of pure sodium chloride |
| Price paid | $7.99 for 150 g / 5.3 oz |
| Price per weight, computed | $1.51 per oz · $24.16 per lb · $5.33 per 100 g · $53.27 per kg |
| Bought at | Whole Foods Market, Deerfield, IL · August 23, 2026 |
| Importer / distributor | Distributed by Sauce Ventures, LLC, Costa Mesa, CA 92626. |
| Barcode | 850020861736 |
| Lot / date code | TBTS-020-U10 (printed beneath barcode) |
What the label says
Quoted as printed, so the claims can be read for what they are.
- Truffle Salt · Black Truffle Infused
- Made with the finest sea salt and black summer truffle
- Non-GMO Project Verified
What we can add
The ingredient list is short but not the same as salt plus pieces of truffle: black truffle concentrate is the second ingredient, followed by black summer truffle identified botanically as Tuber aestivum. The package does not define the concentrate or state how much of either truffle ingredient is present.
The label names a California distributor and calls the product black-truffle infused, but it does not name a coast, saltworks, country of salt harvest or truffle origin. The visible brown and black pieces establish that the jar contains more than flavouring alone; they do not establish provenance.
The sodium arithmetic
The panel declares 582 mg of sodium in a ¼ tsp serving weighing 1.5 g, which works out to about 388 mg per gram. Pure sodium chloride is 393. Allowing for the rounding the label is permitted, the true figure sits somewhere in the 370–405 band, or roughly 99% of the sodium a gram of table salt would carry.
At 388 mg of sodium per gram, the printed values sit very close to the theoretical figure for pure sodium chloride. The truffle ingredients are visible but sparse, so almost all of each 1.5 g serving is still salt. The label rounding band is wide enough that the small difference from 393 mg per gram is not meaningful on its own.
The price
$7.99 for 150 g (5.3 oz) is $1.51 an ounce, or $24.16 a pound — $5.33 per 100 g, $53.27 a kilo. Among the 7 salts in the guide it is number 7 by price per weight, dearest first, and number 3 by sodium per gram. We paid retail at Whole Foods Market in Deerfield, IL, on August 23, 2026.
Tasting notes
None yet. We publish tasting notes only against a stated method — how many tasters, in what order, on what food — and we have not run that panel on this salt. When we do, they go here.
Package evidence
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Gaucho Provisions sells Patagonian sea salt. This guide records what is on other people’s labels, at the prices we paid, with a photograph of the crystal on white. Every field is copied from the package or the receipt; nothing is scored. We paid retail for every jar, nobody sent us one, and we have no relationship with any brand listed. Our own salts will be entered with the same fields and no more.