Taste. The tongue contains small groups of sensory cells called taste buds that react to chemicals in foods. Taste buds react to sweet, sour, salty, and bitter.

舌头上有味蕾，它们是一小群能识别食物中化学成分的感官细胞，能识别出甜、酸、咸、苦。

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Taste buds react to sweet, sour, salty, and bitter. Messages are sent from the taste buds to the areas in the cortex responsible for processing taste.

信号会从味蕾传送到大脑皮质中负责处理味觉的区域。

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He has also discovered that plastic blue spoons make food taste more salty, white spoons make food taste creamier and black spoons make it taste less sweet.

他还发现，蓝色塑料汤匙能让食物变得更咸，白色的汤匙让食物变得更顺口，黑色汤匙让食物变得不那么甜。

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The company is just now beginning to see results, finding, for instance, that other components, like citric acid, influence the salty taste of a product.

FORBES: Pressure Cooker

Their research was complicated by the fact that of the five primary taste sensations salty, sweet, sour, bitter, and umami the taste of salt is the least understood.

NEWYORKER: Snacks for a Fat Planet

The winery produces fine merlots with a unique, salty desert taste, and they also offer bed and breakfast in six luxurious rooms.

BBC: The Negev desert wine route