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if you mask some of that with sweet, well, because of the interactions of these parallel pathways, you somewhat shut down your perception of how much salt you're ingesting, or conversely, by ingesting some salt with sweet foods, you mask some of the sweetness of the sweet foods that you're tasting, and you will continue to indulge in those foods
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beautiful work that's been done by the Zuker Lab, Z-U-K-E-R, Zuker Lab at Columbia University, as well as many other labs have used imaging techniques and other techniques such as molecular biology to define these so-called parallel pathways, parallel meaning pathways that represent sweet or the presence of sweet taste in the mouth and gut, parallel pathways, meaning neural circuits that represent the presence of salty tastes in the mouth and gut and so on, and that those go into the brain, move up through brain stem centers and up to the neocortex indeed where our seed of our conscious perception is to give us a sense and a perception of the components of the foods that we happen to be ingesting and a sense and a perception of the fluids and the components of those fluids that we happen to be ingesting.
when foods or fluids are ingested that are both salty and sweet, you get a yet entirely different ensemble of neurons activated
We also talked about the perception of salt, meaning the perception of salty tastes and how the perception of salty tastes and the perception of other tastes, like sweet, can interact with one another to drive things like increased sugar intake when you're not even aware of it, and indeed, how the combination of salty and sweet taste can bias you towards craving more, for instance, processed foods, and why that might be a good thing to avoid
And it it's that combination of salty and sweet, which can actually lead you to consume more of the salty sweet food than you would have it if it had just been sweet or it had just been salty.
And indeed, how the combination of salty and sweet tastes can bias you towards craving more, for instance, processed foods and why that might be a good thing to avoid.
So if you ingest something that's very very salty, pretty soon your appetite for salty foods will be reduced. But if you mask some of that with sweet, well, because of the uh interactions of these parallel pathways, you somewhat shut down your perception of how much salt you're ingesting.