Made of Hamcho collected in August and September

when the salt plant grows most.

The hamcho power can be consumed with water,

juice or yougurt, though it is mainly used for cooking.

Hamcho(Glasswort) is a herbaceous plant that grow in tideland of west coast area of the Korea. Nomenclature is "Salicornia herbacea L." it is, and is known as farsighted plant that do not evolve until present as plant Paleozoic era 500 million years ago botanically.

Features of Glasswort

Glasswort is storing away various useful ingredients including salt that melt within seawater or tideland by coastal plant of salt resistibility. Glasswort is plant that is the heaviest plant in earth and is having clean salts of a lot of amount.

Glasswort is storing away various useful ingredients including salt that melt within seawater or tideland by coastal plant of salt resistibility. Glasswort is plant that is the heaviest plant in earth and is having clean salts of a lot of amount.

But, can not eat directly even if speak that is clean seawater however. It is because the seawater contains small amount of harmful toxic metals, even though many useful nutrients are also included. It is well known common sense and tradition from old times that removing bittern, when drying seawater to obtain natural salt, is good to heath.

Salt contained in slander glasswort (Hamcho in Korean) is special salt in a plant. It is abundant of mineral, cleaner than natural as well as processed salt, and has good taste as well. Sodium in slander glasswort is not bitterish as one in natural salt, and leaves clean salty taste behind The taste also varies by season; in spring it is lightly salty, in summer a little bit bitterish, and it is more or less hot in autumn.

In addition, hamcho (slander glasswort) is varies in size, salinity, ingredient and even shape, according to the soil of the habitat, i.e. whether it is saltpan, reclaimed land, mud flats or others.