What Does Sodium Taste Like? [Can You Even Taste It?]

What Does Sodium Taste Like? [Can You Even Taste It?]

The flavor of sodium (and lithium) is..well, salty. Shocking that salts taste salty, we know. Certain potassium salts, albeit ineffectively, increase salty taste and have been employed as salt substitutes to lower dietary Na+ intake. Saltiness is a metric that determines the mineral content of foods and regulates the consumption of Na+, the central ion…