why does eating too much salt taste gross?
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Why are you focusing on salt particularly? Eating too much of any one thing tastes gross. If you eat too much sugar, it tastes gross. If you eat too much cake it tastes gross. Same goes with about any food you can think of.
Salt in small amounts is necessary for life so your brain is wired to like salty things. In prehistoric times our ancestors might become salt deficient if they weren’t careful. Nobody in the modern world ever really needs to worry about getting enough salt however. Too much salt becomes toxic very quickly, so when you eat more than is healthy your body fortunately has a safety mechanism that tells you to stop eating so much salt.
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