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- [Voiceover] Salt's delicious as heck.
It goes great on fries, chips, soups,
and all kinds of savory items.
But salt on desserts?
You don't think about it.
So why does salt work so, so, so well
sprinkled on top of chocolate chip cookies?
Seriously, try it.
Well, one reason it works so dang good
is 'cause sugar tasty and salt is tasty.
So you layer one good flavor on another,
and you got a lot of good business going on.
Duh.
But that's not the whole story.
Salt is special because it isn't just tasty,
it has taste-enhancing qualities.
What does that mean?
Adults have hundreds of thousands of taste receptor cells
that live primarily on our tongues.
Though they also live in the intestines.
- [Voiceover] Gross.
- [Voiceover] Some of these receptors
become activated when we eat something sugary,
but if you add sodium in to the equation,
some of these sweet receptors that don't
normally activate when we have just sugar, become alert.
- [Voiceover] Oh shit.
- [Voiceover] This intensifies the sugar.
To get this double punch of sweetness,
a pinch of salt is all you need.
So get to pinching, cookie lovers.
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