How can fast food often contain so much salt, without tasting salty at all?

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How can fast food often contain so much salt, without tasting salty at all?

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Answer 1

One common technique to fix a dish if you’ve over salted it is to add fat actually – https://www.webstaurantstore.com/blog/3466/fixing-salty-food.html

Most fast food is fatty and oily, and so it can take more salt than usual