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Salt opens up the taste buds.

answer 2 Your blood is about as salt as sea water, for this molecule is used as part of many of the bodies chemistry processes.

Deep inside your brain is an organ called the hypothalamus, and this decides how much sugar, salt, sex and so on you need. It is the primitive part that is most you! You really should look up this organ in a search engine, for it has a hand in many body functions.

So because salt is so important to our primitive being, we have taste buds dedicated to this important molecule.

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Breslin, P. A. S. and Beauchamp, G. K. theorise the following in their 1997 journal article "Salt enhances flavour by suppressing bitterness" (Nature, Volume 387, Issue 6633, pp. 563 (1997)): Salts are used as flavouring agents in the cuisines of many cultures, the most commonly used being NaCl. They impart their own salty taste and enhance other flavours. The apparent ability to increase the intensity of other desirable flavours is puzzling as virtually all published psychophysical studies show that NaCl either suppresses or has no effect on other flavours. To reconcile this contradiction we have proposed that salts selectively filter flavours, such that unpleasant tastes (such as bitterness) are more suppressed than palatable ones (such as sweetness) thereby increasing the salience and/or intensity of the latter. We now present evidence to support this idea.

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The tastiness of a substance is highly relative on the individual tasting it; what may be tasty to one person may very well be disgusting to another. If you mean to ask why salt has its particular taste, than it is simply the way sodium chloride tastes. Every chemical has its own individual taste, and sodium chloride (common table salt) ends up having this particular taste that many, fortunately, end up liking. Other substances have their own individual tastes, which makes up their properties and is what makes them unique.

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Sodium chloride (salt) improve the taste of foods.
Also sodium (from sodium chloride) is indispensable for life because it is important for:
- regulation of blood pressure, pH, blood volume, osmotic pressure
- transmission of nervous impulse
- correct neurons function

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Because salt is non toxic (at reasonable daily intakes), it is a pleasant condiment for many foods and also sodium is indispensable for the organism.

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Salt get a good taste on foods. It is a preservative too.

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a sweeter taste to the food with salt

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