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Salt those veggies!

Research reported today in foodnavigator.com describes research showing consumers are put off by the often-bitter taste of vegetables. The article misses its chance to observe that one taste property of sodium chloride is to mask bitter tastes.

Posted by Dick Hanneman on March 14, 2006 07:11 PM | Permalink

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