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- [Voiceover] Salt's delicious as heck.

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It goes great on fries, chips, soups,

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and all kinds of savory items.

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But salt on desserts?

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You don't think about it.

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So why does salt work so, so, so well

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sprinkled on top of
chocolate chip cookies?

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Seriously, try it.

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Well, one reason it works so dang good

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is 'cause sugar tasty and salt is tasty.

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So you layer one good flavor on another,

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and you got a lot of
good business going on.

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Duh.

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But that's not the whole story.

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Salt is special because
it isn't just tasty,

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it has taste-enhancing qualities.

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What does that mean?

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Adults have hundreds of
thousands of taste receptor cells

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that live primarily on our tongues.

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Though they also live in the intestines.

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- [Voiceover] Gross.

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- [Voiceover] Some of these receptors

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become activated when
we eat something sugary,

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but if you add sodium in to the equation,

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some of these sweet receptors that don't

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normally activate when we
have just sugar, become alert.

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- [Voiceover] Oh shit.

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- [Voiceover] This intensifies the sugar.

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To get this double punch of sweetness,

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a pinch of salt is all you need.

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So get to pinching, cookie lovers.

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