Top Flake Extra Coarse Salt
Top Flake Extra Coarse Salt is food grade sodium chloride, extra coarse screened and compacted into flat, smooth-surfaced, rectangular aggregates that provide strong adhesion. Top Flake Extra 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.
- Dry Blends & Seasonings
- Bouillon cubes, salad-style seasoned salt, coarse seasonings and rubs, marinades
- Dairy
- Brine-salted Italian, Swiss, Blue, Brick
- Meat, Poultry & Fish
- Dry-cured meats, dry-salted fish, koshering
- Extra Coarse
- Unit Dimensions: Net weight (lb): 50 L x W x H (in): 25x16x6 Cube (ft³): 1.3
- Palletized: Tiers: 7 Bags/Tier: 7 Bags/Pallet: 49 Gross Wt. (lb): 2545 Cube (ft³): 45.1. Includes 48" x 40" standard wood pallet @ 70 lbs.
- Top Flake Extra Coarse Salt complies with Food Chemicals Codex tolerances and federal cGMP standards. It is annually certified as Kosher.
Top Flake Extra 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