What does Salt taste like. Can you describe it?
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Salt tastes like minerals, too bitter and causes your mouth to water if it is too strong. Otherwise, I would almost say that salt has no taste when there is very little, it enhances the flavour of other foods. Too much and then you taste the mineral salt taste and it is overpowering. You can get used to the flavour of salt though, and eat greater and greater amounts over time enjoying the flavour.
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Salt is one of the 5 or 6 basic tastes. There is Salt, Sweet, Sour, Bitter, and Umami (some call it savory) and Spicy. All are activated through tastes buds and 'channels' through which we sense the taste. Saltiness is a taste made by the presence of sodium ions. They can pass directly through ion channels in your tongue, making the salty mineral taste. Calcium ions can also easily activate the taste, but potassium and magnesium ions do not do so nearly as effectively, instead activating the bitter taste instead.
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Tastes like your sweat on a hot day.
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