KOMPAS.com – Coffee mixed with sugar may sound normal. Well, how about coffee mixed with salt, dare to try?
Reported from Vinepair.comFriday (2/21/2025), adding salt to coffee both before brewing it and when it has become coffee ready to drink helps to reduce the bitter taste.
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This also helps if the coffee you enjoy tastes bad, but you can’t throw it to brew new coffee.
Not only that, sometimes the coffee sold on the market is not always according to your taste. Adding salt can help your coffee better.
Coffee mixed with salt helps Reduce the bitter taste
What are the signs of the body most salt? These are symptoms and ways to overcome them.Quoted from Bon appetitesometimes the natural bitter of coffee is more felt due to several factors.
For example a longer brewing time, coffee beans that are ground are too smooth, or coffee powder that has been oxidized.
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When that happens, salt is what helps reduce it. Sodium ions from salt bind to salt receptors on the tongue, which basically block the brain to feel the bitter taste and increase perception of other flavors, such as sweet taste.
The dose of coffee mixed with salt
Illustration Is drinking black coffee good for health?Salt mixed coffee was popularized by Alton Brown, presenter of a culinary event from the channel Food Network 2009.
At that time, Brown suggested mixing a quarter of a teaspoon of salt to 12 tablespoons of coffee ground. This recipe is for six cups of coffee.
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Of course the recipe can be adjusted to the taste and condition of the body. Adding a pinch of salt to coffee has also made its own changes.
Please remember, coffee mixed with too much salt won’t taste good. In addition, too much salt and consumed in the long run also have a negative impact on health.
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