• stephen01king
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    19 hours ago

    I don’t think salt modified the acidity, though. What they do is activate the salty receptors which share nerve pathways with bitter receptors, so you detect less of the bitterness in the coffee.

    Edit: I can’t find any reputable sources for the sharing nerve pathways part, but a couple of paper abstracts I found do show that saltiness suppresses our ability to detect bitterness.

    • naticus@lemmy.world
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      6 hours ago

      Yeah I think you’re probably right. Still can make things more palatable for some, but not because of changing acidity.