Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1895 — Made Sweeter by Salt. [ARTICLE]

Made Sweeter by Salt.

Who would think of making sugar sweeter by the addition of salt? Such, however, is asserted to be the ease by Professor Zuntz at a late meeting of the Physiological Society of Berlin. From his experience he finds that Hto a solution of sugar be added a slight amount of salt and water so weak that it excites no saline taste, the result is extra sweetening of the sugared water. The weakest of quinine solution is said also to produce a practically similar result. The explanation given of the above seeming incongruity is that the ever so feeble saltiness imparts an in creased sensibility to the sensation of teste by the simultaneous stimuli, and hence an appreciation of additional sweetness.