It's a long one:
(21 steps) salty salts malts malls mails mains pains paint saint stint stink stank stalk stall shall shell shelf sheaf shear sheer sheet sweet
Savory.
Sweet and salty
Camel
sweet
Definitely they are salty.
sweet
Sweet, sour, bitter, salty
a ladder of words
sweet,salty
Sour
salty
bitter, salty