Australia’s Very Own Pink Salt
Murray River Salt is Australia’s very own pink salt!
Why use imported salt when we have our own superior salt?
Murray River Salt -2024 Sustainability Champions Melbourne Food & Wine Festival
Walkenny Park Equine Herbs is the first equine health business to offer Murray River Salt to their clients.
“We are delighted with the quality and palatability of Murray River Salt and it is a real Aussie product which is helping to manage salinity in the Murray River basin” explains Denise Farrugia.
“Not only that but it’s a gourmet salt popular amongst foodies, our consultant Victoria Ferguson has been cooking with it and using it for her horses for quite a while which led us to obtaining supplies for our horses and clients.”
Synthetic salt (sodium chloride) is vastly inferior to naturally occurring salt and imported Himalayan Rock Salt and Celtic Sea Salt which are widely used. But now we have our very own Murray River pink salt which is superior in every way to the imported or synthetic salts.
At the 2024 Melbourne Food & Wine Festival Murray River Salt won Sustainability Champions, recognised for their groundbreaking environmental practices that have revolutionised salt production by prioritising sustainability while maintaining superior product quality.
Murray River Salt’s solar-evaporation technique harnesses the natural mineral-rich water of the Murray-Darling Basin, creating a process that is both eco-conscious and highly efficient. This method helps reduce soil salinity levels, benefiting local ecosystems while producing high-grade, naturally pink salt crystals.
The delicate colour is a result of the minerals it contains, being particularly high in magnesium and calcium and to a lesser degree sodium, potassium and iodine, providing ideal electrolyte balance.
Sodium and potassium work in tandem. The ratio is essential for hydration (body fluid) balance, kidney health, pH balance and prevention of arthritis. The kidneys are responsible for removing wastes from the body via fluids so if there isn’t enough sodium, dehydration will result. If there is too much sodium there will be fluid retention. Potassium also regulates muscle function and tone.
Sodium in its natural form alkalises and is not retained in body fluids while common salt (sodium chloride) produces an acid state with excess being retained in fluids.
So feeding common salt (sodium chloride) is certainly not the way to get these two essential minerals into the horse’s body.
Enter Murray River Salt – Australia’s very own pink salt – the healthy salt for humans and their horses. It is highly palatable to horses and makes a significant contribution to optimum hydration.
Salt is essential to life so it makes sense to use only the best quality, and this is easily achieved with Murray River Salt.
Not only that it is inexpensive at $10 per kg. Feeding rate for horses is 5 grams per 100 kg of bodyweight. Obviously this can be varied for individual needs.
