Why Does Salt Change the Taste of Everything?

If your coffee is too bitter, add a pinch of salt. If your salad isn’t sour enough, add a pinch of salt. If your beer is too bitter, add a pinch of salt. Salt has a seemingly magical ability to enhance good flavors and dampen bad ones. Come along on George’s epic journey into the wilds of salt science. You might also like other Reactions videos: How Does Salt Melt Ice?    • How Does Salt Melt Ice?   Salt, Diamonds and DNA: 5 Surprising Facts About Crystals    • Salt, Diamonds and DNA: 5 Surprising Facts...   Can We Make Ocean Water Drinkable -- and Should We?    • Can We Make Ocean Water Drinkable -- and S...   Is MSG Bad for You?    • Is MSG Bad for You?   The Science of Maple Syrup Production    • How Do They Make Maple Syrup?   Credits: Executive Producer: Matthew Radcliff Producers: Elaine Seward Andrew Sobey Darren Weaver Writer/Host: George Zaidan Scientific Consultants: Gary Beauchamp, Ph.D. Michelle Boucher, PhD Brianne Raccor, PhD Executive in Charge for PBS: Maribel Lopez Director of Programming for PBS: Gabrielle Ewing Assistant Director of Programming for PBS: John Campbell Reactions is a production of the American Chemical Society. © 2022 American Chemical Society. All rights reserved. Sources: An overview of binary taste-taste interactions https://doi.org/10.1016/S0950-3293(02... Handbook of Perception Volume 6A - Edward C. Carterette - Google Books https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&... The taste of table salt - PMC https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... Bitterness suppression as revealed by split-tongue taste stimulation in humans - ScienceDirect https://www.sciencedirect.com/science... Taste of Sodium Chloride Solutions after Adaptation to Sodium Chloride: Implications for the "Water Taste" | Science https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/s...