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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.
  It tastes sour. Other tastes are sweet, bitter and salty. Bitter is alkaline, the opposite of acid in Ph. And salty is the combination of an acid and a base (alkaline), â¦ which is a salt. mildly-corrosive or noncorrosive acid like ascorbic, citric or diluted acetic tastes sour. A very corrosive acid like hydrochloric starts out very sour and ends up tasting like meat because your tongue dissolves when you try eating the acid.