How does salt make food taste better?

Because table salt contains the three most important electrolytes, the most basic contents of our bodies besides water - and water and those electrolytes are balanced out. Too little salt and you can have problems ranging from nightly cramps to water toxication. (There just was a recent case of a woman who managed to kill herself drinking too much water in a radio contest for a PS3, if you remember.)

That doesn't mean you should engorge yourself on salt, though. A little salt in water helps vegetables cook faster, but you don't lack anything if you don't put extra much salt into your food - they contain salt anyway, as all living creatures do.

Saltiness is a flavour itself, it doesn't "enhance" anything. It doesn't change the taste of something, it just adds some...salt!

Salt is sodium chloride.

The chlorine component adds to taste by reacting to the taste buds - so they say. Chlorine has lot of beneficial properties for the human body due to its disinfectant and antibacterial properties.

The sodium component in the salt is the one creates the craving to eat more of any food that has salt in it - like potatoe chips, some say potassium chloride is even more powerful in that respect - that's why some potatoe chips have a slight amount of that too. Read on to learn a little more -

http://www.saltworks.us/salt_info/si_SaltAndGoodHe...

http://www.consumer-voice.org/PotatoChips_20060701...

Salt is a flavor enhancer. It enhances the natural flavor of foods, including sweets.

It enhances the flavor in foods which is already there, and brings it out more.

it reacts strongly and quickly with the tastebuds, providing immediate satisfaction

well, take goldfish, for example.

baked and not fried goldfish.

the wholesome snack that smiles back until you bite their heads off.

you know they're made with real cheese,

even though they look like fishies.

the snack that smiles back, goldfish!

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