Salt is one of our five innate taste sensations, and with good reason: besides making food taste good, we’ve seen how vital salt is to our health.
--- Does it make sense to say that salt is a taste sensation? I'm not sure I understand it. Maybe the author wanted to say that we have five senses, one of them is taste and we like salt by nature?
It is referring to the five basic types of taste that we can detect (so it is said): salt, sweet, bitter, sour and savoury. Salt is one of these.
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It is referring to the five basic types of taste that we can detect (so it is said): salt, sweet, bitter, sour and savoury. Salt is one of these.