Adding Salt to your coffee?
Yes you have indeed read that correctly! To me it sounds like utter madness but apparently it is a thing!
Why do people add salt to coffee?
The thinking behind salting coffee is that salt acts as a bitterness reducer, somehow either blocking or tricking our brain and tongue into receiving all of that bitter taste.
People say that when you add salt to your coffee it tastes better, it takes the bitterness away. A study in Nature showed that sodium ions suppress bitterness and enhance flavor and what better sodium source is there than salt!
Well I am not rely a coffee drinker but my dad says it is indeed true that salt makes the coffee less bitter and brings out the flavor in the coffee.
How much salt to add to a cup of coffee?
The experts say the perfect amount of salt to add to a cup of coffee is a pinch of salt
This hole concept is very interesting and even weird to me, when I think of coffee I think of sugar and milk, definitely not of salt and milk!
My questions to you:
- What do you think about adding salt to your coffee?
- Have you ever tried adding salt to your coffee?
- If you had, what did it taste like?
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