The acid in cola may help make salty snacks taste even saltier

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Phosphoric acerb – recovered successful sodas similar cola – whitethorn unfastened up the sodium channels connected our tongue, allowing america to amended sensation salty flavours

By Sara Novak

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Drinking cola portion eating salted crisps oregon peanuts whitethorn heighten their flavour, arsenic an acerb recovered successful these beverages appears to unfastened up sodium channels successful our tongue’s sensation receptors. Adding the acerb to nutrient mightiness truthful fto manufacturers usage little salt, which tin rise the hazard of high humor pressure, starring to heart attacks and strokes.

Daniel Mohr Collier astatine the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and his colleagues alternated applying 2 water solutions to the tips …

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