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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.
The Five Basic Tastes. Taste is one of the five traditional senses. It is the feeling we perceive when food touches are tongue, and chemicals in the food set off receptors on the taste buds of our tongue and other mouth surfaces. It gives our body information about the chemical contents of the food. There are only five basic tastes sweetness, saltiness, bitterness, sourness, and umami. The differences in flavor other then those very basic tastes, come from the aroma of the food, and the mouth feel (temperature, and texture) of the food.