Matt Whiley

Savoury

Saltiness

Appears in
The Modern Cocktail
The Modern Cocktail

By Matt Whiley

Published 2017

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Anything that contains sodium chloride, or other salts. Most foods aren’t naturally salty – they contain sodium but not necessarily big quantities of sodium chloride – so we add salt.

An example of a natural salty flavour (rather than umami flavour) in a drink would be seaweed or sea greens. However, for the purposes of classifying drinks in the table, I’ve taken a ‘salty’ taste and used the wider term ‘savoury’ to describe drinks as anything that isn’t sweet, bitter, spicy or specifically umami.