Hawaiian Sea Salts are harvested from local minerals or lava deposits. Red Alaea, traditionally favored for its medicinal properties that are legendary in Hawaii, is a natural red clay that is combined with the sea salt to provide a pink-tinted salt with added minerals. Referred to as alaea, alae sea salt, red clay salt, or Red Alaea Hawaiian sea salt, this sea salt provides a slight iron-like flavor from the iron oxide added by the clay as well as mild nutty overtone.