The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
However, if I salt deprive you now, this incredibly high concentration of salt, one molar sodium chloride, becomes amazingly appetitive and attractive. What's going on in here? Your tongue is telling you this is horrible, but your brain is telling you you need it. And this is what we call the modulation of the taste system by the internal state.
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Salt is very appetitive at low concentrations and that's because we need it. It's our electrolyte balance requires salt. Every one of their neurons uses salt as the most important of the ions, you know, with potassium to ensure that you can transfer these electrical signals within and between neurons. But at high concentrations, let's say ocean water is incredibly aversive. And we all know this because we gone to the ocean and then when you get it in your mouth, it's not that great.