What is salty besides salt?

Except salt, sodium malate and sodium gluconate are salty, and potassium chloride is salty, but the taste of potassium chloride is salty and bitter, as are calcium chloride and magnesium chloride. In addition, toxic sodium nitrite is salty.

Salty taste is a kind of mental experience distributed on the tip of the tongue, which is generally stimulated by salt (a chemical called sodium chloride). It's a smell. Moreover, salty nerves are generally distributed in the two wings of the middle tongue. When the nerve cells in this position are stimulated by salty taste, they will be reflected to the brain for processing.