Top Flake Coarse Salt
Top Flake Coarse Salt is food grade sodium chloride, extra coarse screened and compacted into flat, smooth-surfaced, rectangular aggregates that provide strong adhesion. Top Flake Coarse Salt particles tend to be harder and are less susceptible to attrition during storage and handling than grainer flake salt. Its white, opaque color is visually appealing.
- Cereals & Baked Goods
- Topping for crackers, breadsticks, snack crackers
- Dry Blends & Seasonings
- Bouillon cubes, salad-style seasoned salt, coarse seasonings and rubs
- Dairy
- Vat-salted Cheddar and Colby; Brine-salted Italian, Swiss, Blue, Brick
- Meat, Poultry & Fish
- Dry-cured meats, dry-salted fish, koshering
- Coarse
- Unit Dimensions: Net weight (lb): 50 L x W x H (in): 23x16x4 Cube (ft³): 0.8
- Palletized: Tiers: 7 Bags/Tier: 7 Bags/Pallet: 49 Gross Wt. (lb): 2545 Cube (ft³): 47. Includes 48" x 40" standard wood pallet @ 70 lbs.
- Top Flake Coarse Salt complies with Food Chemicals Codex tolerances and federal cGMP standards. It is annually certified as Kosher.
Top Flake Coarse Salt contains a minute concentration of yellow prussiate of soda, an additive permitted for food use, as a water-soluble anticaking agent.
Salt Selection Guide
The following charts match 22 of our most popular salt grades to over 80 food applications. More than one grade may be designated for a specific use; the preferred choices are indicated by the letter "P" with alternatives indicated by the letter "A". Often, several grades are indicated for a use due to variations in processing methods, storage/handling procedures or climatic conditions. Check the row at the bottom of the chart for each application's designated salting method.
Legend
Salt Grades
- PPreferred
- AAlternate
Salting Method
- BBrine or other liquid solution
- DDirectly added in dry form
- DMDry mixing
- DBDry salt manually dispersed or broadcasted
- DDDry salt mechanically dispersed
- SSlurry, suspended in saturated brine or other liquids