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How does salt affect coffee?
Kenneth Chang, guest posting for John Tierney, has proposed an interesting fix for reducing bitterness in your food: salt. He notes that salt suppresses bitterness better than sugar. He notes that it’s not quite known how salt suppresses bitterness, whether it disrupts the bitter receptors on the tongue or whether there’s some sort of post-processing [...]
