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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 is translucent, colourless, odourless (officially, though we think you can smell the freshness of the sea in one of our boxes) and has a distinctive and characteristic taste. Salt occurs naturally in many parts of the world in mineral form and has been mined for thousands of years.Chemically, sea salt is the same.Gastronomically, itâs very different. Our rather firm views on salt are not shared by everybody. Youâll find some alternative points of view among the sources below, included here in a spirit of salty open mindedness, rather than agreement.alt occurs naturally in many parts of the world in mineral form and has been mined for thousands of years. Chemically, sea salt is the same. Gastronomically, itâs very different. Our rather firm views on salt are not shared by everybody.