2006-10-30 16:09:18 · 19 answers · asked by Jay 1 in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
It intensifies the flavor. Any time you add salt while cooking or onto something raw, not only does it give the "salty" taste, but it contrasts and brings out the other flavors. That's why adding a dash during baking makes everything "pop", so to speak.
I don't enjoy it, but others do.
2006-10-30 16:37:53 · answer #1 · answered by cando_86 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
People eat their watermelons and especially the pineapples
with salt is to give it a sweeter taste when the salt is rubbed on
it which reacts with the sourish juice.
There is a chemical reaction which makes it sweeter in taste
and more likeable to eat the fruit better.
2006-10-31 05:15:56 · answer #2 · answered by steplow33 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Watermelons are considered duiretic. Adding salt can replenish the loss of sodium.
For pineapple, salt blunts the sourness, thus tasting sweeter.
2006-10-31 03:13:50 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Some people say its for taste (sweet and bitter activate different parts of the tongue's taste buds). A more biological answer is that the sodium from the salt binds to the glucose from the sugar when they mix together in the intestines. This binding allows sodium to enter the cell and be pumped out with another type of protein pump. This then facilitates the movement of ions and water (which binds to the ions) in the blood. This then helps to rehydrate people.
Hope that's an interesting answer for you.
2006-10-31 00:38:00 · answer #4 · answered by Answers4u 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
In Arkansas we salt watermelon, cantelope, apples (sliced) and tomato's....never heard of salting pineapple though...almost never it straight, use it for an ingredient in a dish. That's just me though. I always salt grapefruit too, but I have friends that prefer to 'sugar' it.
2006-10-31 04:59:43 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I tend to salt watermelon to extract out some of the water to bring out more of the melon taste.
2006-10-31 00:39:02 · answer #6 · answered by Bunny 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sweet and salty, it makes watermelon really really good. Havent done it to pineapple though.
2006-10-31 00:38:22 · answer #7 · answered by Kellie W 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I eat my oranges with salt. It brings out the sweetness of the fruit
2006-10-31 01:28:42 · answer #8 · answered by cgroenewald_2000 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I like salt on any fruit except bananas.
2006-10-31 00:12:08 · answer #9 · answered by classic 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I've often wondered that since I moved here to the south. It is supposed to enhance the flavor, but I don't get it. The fruit is sweeter, jucier, and more enjoyable without it.
2006-10-31 00:13:35 · answer #10 · answered by MissNeen 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋