
According to author Alex Woo, there are four strategies to make things saltier without adding more table salt.
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Low salt does not mean it has to be low flavor. We just need to learn a few things in saltiness neuroscience and apply them to create salty perception without salt. Flavor is a crossmodal integration of all five sensest—taste, smell, sight, sound and touch.1,2 The five basic tastes in the mouth are sweet, sour, bitter, salty and umami.