You get all taste makers from plants or vegetables eg Sugar from sugarcane bitter from bitterguard hot from jalepenoschillies sour from lemon is there a plant or vegetable that gives salt NaCl?

Answer 1

No, because no plants have a sufficiently high salt content to make the extraction of salt practical.Interesting question, because the human tongue has taste buds for detecting sweet, sour, bitter, and salty. (Although those taste classifications are fairly arbitrary, across cultures and history, including their number.) Too much salt kills plants. Water enters their cells to dilute the salt absorbed through the roots, increasing the pressure until the cells rupture. Plants don't grow on salt flats, and only a very few species are adapted to live on the margins of salt flats. Although these plants might be the best candidates for extracting salt from, that's impractical. It's easier to dissolve the salt from the soil they grow in, then filter and evaporate the water to obtain the salt. Watering houseplants with too much salt dissolved in the water kills them. Animals are also affected negatively by too much salt. The ones living in high salt environments or in seawater must excrete the excess salt. An old traditional method of human suicide involved consuming a pound or so of salt. Salt was gathered from salt flats since ancient times. More recently it was obtained from salt mines. A commercial by-product of desalination plants (factories) that convert seawater to freshwater is salt. Similarly, health food stores sell sea salt, which is the salt remaining after evaporating sea water. Salt was unknown by many North American indigenous tribes until the arrival of Europeans. Their natural diet provided them with sufficient salt, without any need for adding more, as does the diet of people of most other cultures in most regions of the world. Salt is needed in the diet, but a well-balanced diet already contains enough. Adding salt can cause health problems such as high blood pressure. In history, Roman soldiers sent to far-away lands were given a salary. The word salarycomes from the Latin word sal, which means salt. They were given salt because it was essential for their health, especially in arid climates, when travelling through uninhabited regions (e.g. deserts), or when they couldn't access a local balanced diet (e.g. poisoned food from enemies). The historical importance of salt is shown in sayings such as not to be worth one's salt, superstitions such as throwing salt over one's shoulder, and so on. Potassium chloride tastes like salt, and is among the modern commonly used salt substitutesfor table salt (sodium chloride) for those on a low sodium diet, but salt substitutes have their own sets of negative medical side effects.