The ability to taste salt and sweetness is reduced by at least 30% - yet oversalting food will leave you further dehydrated.

BBC: Airline food: On the up?

Season to taste with salt and pepper.

NPR: A Kitchen Table, an Easter Deadline and Family

Brush lightly with oil and sprinkle with chopped onions, herbs, salt, pepper and chili flakes according to your own taste.

CNN: Pizza Dough

The same with the sea, the same with the rocks, the same with the taste of salt that could fill your summer days to saturation, now it was just salt, end of story.

NEWYORKER: Total Recall

PepsiCo scientists grew cultured cells, injected the genetic sequences of the four known taste receptors (leaving out salt) into them, and then hardwired the cells to a computer.

NEWYORKER: Snacks for a Fat Planet

Mussels, he said, "should taste exactly of themselves" which is to say sweet, meaty and reminiscent of salt water.

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