What Is Bamboo Salt And Where Does It Come From?

Bamboo Salt (Jukyeom) is a traditional Korean salt with roots stretching back roughly 1,000 years, originally developed by Korean doctors and monks as a folk remedy. It’s made by packing sun-dried sea salt into bamboo trunks, sealing them with mineral-rich yellow clay, and roasting them in a furnace fuelled by pinewood. As the bamboo burns away and the clay’s minerals leach into the salt, the result is a mineral-dense salt very different from ordinary table or sea salt.