Our story

Cancer makes us change our life perspective!

The year was 2014 and my wife was diagnosed a breast cancer followed by chemical and radio therapy. For me, it meant looking for the answer in our own backyard: an ancient local plant that could supply our body with extra minerals, vitamins, fiber, some protein, and fatty acids, while also resetting the way we use salt: Salicornia.

My name is Hugo Mariano and my field of expertise is communication, culture, and sustainability and my partner is Ricardo Coelho, a biologist expert in coastal management. Together we founded Salivitae (life's salt in Latin) in 2016 with a mission: to take salicornia, a "super plant", to each person who needs it.

We began exporting fresh Salicornia to several European countries, always with sustainability in mind (0% waste, organic certification, only use of solar energy) and soon we understood we had to take this amazing product a step further.

Then it hit us:

Since so many people know salicornia as the only natural and vegan salt substitute in the world, and since ours is also a powerful natural vitamin, mineral, and fiber source, why don't we reach as many people as we can with dehydrated Salicornia, and help them using our green super salt as a natural and organic salt replacer?

We present Salivitae's "Green Salt"

The Product

Our salicornia is grown in optimal organic and natural conditions, with all the possible care for the conditions it needs to have to produce the best nutrients. And those nutrients are really so amazing that they are also used for medical purposes, such as a polyphenols supplementation diet that can protect against tissue damage in cerebral ischemia.

For us, it's very important that we can offer not only the best salt replacer in the world, but it's also important it tastes amazing and that adds rich nutritional value. With our green salt, you can be sure you are taking what your body needs, the way it should be: a natural organic super supplement plant that's also a nutraceutical!

Salicornia HEALTHY Reduces 75% sodium intake TASTEFUL Salty Umami flavor 100% Natural, organic and NATURAL vegetable Minerals, Vitamins, Protein and Soil regeneration, water savings and Fiber circular economy

But that's not all.

While you are getting the best nature has made, a highly evolved plant that deals learned to deal with salt, you will also be contributing to tackling climate change: as sea level rises and we have fresh water problems all over Europe, this is a solution that we have been using to use lands that are salt-affected, regenerating them while giving local farmers a way to have use their degraded lands.

The Green Salt

The Green Salt