It's been a while since I had any coupons from SocialNature, but I recently qualified for a promotion of A Vogel brand "Herbamare" herb-flavoured sea salt. According to the ingredients, it is "sea salt with vegetables and herbs".
I tasted a pinch and it was salty as salt should be, plus clear herb aroma, though not particularly strong.
I compared it with regular table salt (slide 6) and it looks like the salt particles are generally more fine than regular table salt (not sea salt).
I tried it on some Pran Plain Paratha I got from Superstore. I sprinkled Herbamare on one half while the paratha was still frozen, then toasted it in my toaster oven for 10 minutes at 400 degrees Farenheit (slides 7-8). I tried the pre-seasoned side as well as the plain side which I seasoned with Herbamare after.
I did not put an excessive amount of Herbamare, enough to have mild saltiness. Of course the saltiness was evident, but the vegetables and herbs flavor was basically lost, even though the paratha is as pretty much as plain a food as they come.
Next, I added some Herbamare to some hot water. This worked much better as the aroma of herbs and vegetables was clear just from the steam wafting up. The resulting "broth" was however mildly salty and again the vegetable flavour was very faint.
Nevertheless this seemed the most promising way to access the vegetable and herb flavour and I suppose I could just add quite a bit, on par with using something like a chicken broth powder, but I seriously doubt the cost of doing so would have been reasonable.
So ultimately, I honestly am not sure how to use this product other than as jus salt. To put enough to make the vegetable and herb flavour come through would have meant adding quite an unreasonable amount of salt, and I feel that would defeat the purpose of the product.
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