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Salt tastes biting, puckery, savory, zesty, piquant. Salt tastes like any of numerous compounds that result from replacement of part or all of the acid hydrogen by a metal or a group acting like a metal. Directly on the tongue, salt tastes biting and puckery. In your eye or on a broken skin part it can sting fiercely.
Normally, saliva has a high sodium and chloride composition; however, because the amount of salt in saliva remains consistent and taste buds adapt to this, our saliva does not taste salty. Taste alterations may be due to CNS pathology, head and/or surgical trauma, middle ear infection. Additionally, an excessively salty taste in the mouth can be attributed to an increase in the saliva salt concentration or to an increased sensitivity of taste buds to salt which in turn may be due to the following reasons: Medications side-effects:~400 medications may cause alterations in taste sensation; Dehydration