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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.
Salt is actually a mineral, not a spice. Therefore, it does not lose its flavor over time like spices and herbs do. Salt has been an important player in world commerce and cuisine since ancient times, and salts our language and literature as well. No kitchen is complete without salt. Culinary salts come in two basic categories - sea salt and mined salt.