As people prepared for swimsuit season in 2025, a claim spread online that drinking Hawaiian pink salt mixed with lemon water ...

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Salt begins to form in one of many salt beds in the Hanapepe salt patch on Friday, July 14, 2023, in Hanapepe, Hawaii. This Native Hawaiian salt has been hand made for generations and is one of ...

Salt begins to form in one of the dozens of salt beds in the Hanapepe salt patch on Kauai Island on July 12, 2023, in Hanapepe, Hawaii. This Native Hawaiian salt has been hand made for generations.

HANAPEPE, Hawaii — On a warm summer afternoon, Tina Taniguchi was on her hands and knees scraping dirt off an oblong depression in the ground. Thick brown hair peeked out from her coconut leaf hat.

Step 2: The salt beds or loi are smoothed out using river rock to seal the rich black clay and mud mixture. Step 3: Sea water from the wells is transferred to rectangular holding tanks known as waiku.

HANAPEPE, Hawaii (AP) — On a warm summer afternoon, Tina Taniguchi was on her hands and knees scraping dirt off an oblong depression in the ground. Thick brown hair peeked out from her coconut ...

But the Native Hawaiian salt makers are finding solutions to preserve the practice for future generations. 2/3. ... the process of turning sea water into salt can be slow and grueling.

As water enters the well, so do tiny, red brine shrimp, giving Hanapepe salt its unique sweetness, said Nobrega-Olivera. Eventually, water from the wells is moved into the salt beds, which have ...

HANAPEPE, Hawaii (AP) — On a warm summer afternoon, Tina Taniguchi was on her hands and knees scraping dirt off an oblong depression in the ground. Thick brown hair peeked out from her coconut ...