When it comes to snacking, most of us tend to reach for familiar comfort foods like potato chips or chocolate. They’re quick, tasty, and easy to find. But here’s the hard truth: these traditional snacks often come with a price—empty calories, addictive ingredients, and unbalanced portion sizes. What are the health and culinary benefits of […]
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Salty Plum Pizza
Step into Etna Pizzeria & Restaurant in The Narrows, and you’ll find the talk of Darwin – the Salty Plum Pizza. This is no ordinary pizza; it’s a dessert sensation, a mix of sweet and sharp flavours that’ll leave your taste buds dancing. Etna’s skilled chefs have reimagined the salty plum, a local delicacy, into […]
Do Salty Plums Contain Gluten or Nuts
Having been in the salty plum business for over 20 years, we are regularly asked about Nuts, Gluten, and Milk. While we are importers, we also buy from other importers to keep the widest variety of products. The local importers we use are all established companies with decades of importing experience. The manufacturers we use […]
The History Of Salty Plums
If you are from the Darwin area or have been brought up there, you probably remember spending your pocket money on salty plums? You might also recall how you hung onto that paper bag full of salty plums like it was a bag of gold. Nostalgia’s hitting in, right? Why not learn a bit more […]
What Is the Difference Between Japanese Plum and Chinese Salty Plum?
One might ask, what is the difference between Japanese plums and Chinese plums? Well, Japanese plums are also known as Umeboshi or salty plums. Chinese plums, on the other hand, are called Prunus Salicina. The primary way to tell them apart or differentiate them is to compare their sizes. The “Prunus Salicina” or the Chinese plum is smaller than […]