Salt and pepper are vital for enhancing and helping to create flavours in our food

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Salt and pepper are vital for enhancing and helping to create flavours in our food

Salt and pepper are served on our dinner tables so often that we hardly notice them, yet they are vital for enhancing and helping to create flavours in our food.

Salt instantly can be tasted on our tongue, the feeling it creates in the mouth enhances other flavours that it is paired with, we need this salt in our bodies to survive.

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