chocolate colored salt with a u201c bourne vitae u201d type aroma was recovered from the aqueous solution upon evaporation of the extract in addition to nacl kcl and other inorganic nutrients the salt contained 0 2 free amino acids as also proteins carbohydrates lipids and pigments in reasonable quantities 0069 suaeda nudiflora plant growing wildly was collected and processed as per the example of example 1 to give 1 43 kg of fresh biomass from which 0 28 kg of dry biomass was obtained 0 13 kg of crude salt was obtained from the dry biomass as per the procedure of example 1 the crude salt contained 70 nacl and 6 kcl 0070 suaeda nudiflora grown in pots was irrigated and processed as per the procedure of example 4 and 250 g of fresh biomass was obtained which was sun dried to a constant dry weight 48 5 g the dry biomass was treated as per the procedure of example 1 to yield 20 g of crude salt containing 55 nacl and 18 kcl the salt was also analysed by xrf for micronutrients and contained 570 ppm fe 188 ppm mn 128 ppm zn and 13 ppm cu a further 20 g of crude salt was processed as per the procedure of example 2 to yield 18 2 g of refined salt containing 75 nacl and 17 kcl 0071 salicornia brachiata grown in pots was irrigated with 0 6 m sodium chloride supplemented with quarter strength of hogland 39 s nutrient solution a final irrigation was given with the same solution but enriched with 20 mm potassium iodide.