Whole Foods Market — Sea Salt Flakes
Published September 19, 2026 · Evidence purchased August 23, 2026
At a glance
Where is this salt from?
Greece — product of Greece; saltworks and region not stated.
What are the ingredients?
SEA SALT
How much sodium does it contain?
410 mg per ¼ tsp; 342 mg per gram, computed.
What did it cost?
$5.89 for 240 g; $0.70 per ounce, purchased August 23, 2026.
| Brand | Whole Foods Market |
| Producer, as labelled | Whole Foods Market IP, Inc., Austin, Texas (distributor, as labelled) |
| Salt origin | Greece — product of Greece; saltworks and region not stated |
| Business location on package | Whole Foods Market IP, Inc., Austin, Texas, United States (distributor) |
| Type | Sea salt flakes |
| Ingredients, verbatim | SEA SALT |
| Net weight | 240 g · 8.5 oz |
| Serving | ¼ tsp (1.2 g) · 200 per container |
| Sodium per serving | 410 mg · 18% DV |
| Sodium per gram, computed | 342 mg (band 325–360) · 87% of pure sodium chloride |
| Price paid | $5.89 for 240 g / 8.5 oz |
| Price per weight, computed | $0.70 per oz · $11.13 per lb · $2.45 per 100 g · $24.54 per kg |
| Bought at | Whole Foods Market, Deerfield, IL · August 23, 2026 |
| Importer / distributor | Distributed by Whole Foods Market IP, Inc., Austin, Texas 78703. |
| Barcode | 099482541309 |
| Lot / date code | Lot L-5414; best if used by OCT 09 30 (printed on tub) |
What the label says
Quoted as printed, so the claims can be read for what they are.
- Sea Salt Flakes
- Non-Iodized
- This salt does not supply iodide, a necessary nutrient.
- Vegan
- Product of Greece
What we can add
The poured sample consists of large, brittle translucent plates, many several millimetres across, with layered striations visible in the crystal. It is visually distinct from the smaller irregular fleur de sel flakes and the dense coarse crystals elsewhere in the guide.
The package gives a clear country statement: Product of Greece. It does not identify a coast, saltworks, producer or harvesting method, so the guide records Greece without adding a regional claim.
Whole Foods Market is the brand and named US distributor. The tub carries a vegan mark, though a single-ingredient sea salt would ordinarily contain no animal-derived ingredient.
The sodium arithmetic
The panel declares 410 mg of sodium in a ¼ tsp serving weighing 1.2 g, which works out to about 342 mg per gram. Pure sodium chloride is 393. Allowing for the rounding the label is permitted, the true figure sits somewhere in the 325–360 band, or roughly 87% of the sodium a gram of table salt would carry.
The panel declares 410 mg of sodium in a 1.2 g serving, about 342 mg per gram. The permitted label-rounding band is broad enough that the computed value should be used for comparison, not as a precise assay of the salt's composition.
The price
$5.89 for 240 g (8.5 oz) is $0.70 an ounce, or $11.13 a pound — $2.45 per 100 g, $24.54 a kilo. Among the 11 salts in the guide it is number 11 by price per weight, dearest first, and number 7 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.
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Why a salt company is doing this
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.