Salt on apples

[BillStickers]

All my life I have eaten apples sprinkled with just a little salt, delicious! My whole family eats apples that way so to me it's second nature.

I have yet to meet anybody else who eats apples with salt, let alone convert anybody to my way.

I would like to hear you gastronomes' comments on my peculiar taste.


thanks

[cruella]

I also put pepper on strawberries. Seems it aids the digestion.

[miles488]

using a lil salt with anything sweet works - the chemistry is something to do with extra ions(from the salt) aiding transfer across the receptors in the tongue so giving more flavour. it's real usefulness comes from being able to reduce the amount of sugar you use in almost anything by adding a tiny amount of salt

[Clanad]

Along with the apples I use it on grapefruit... lending validity to miles488's theory...

[heathfield]

I agree with Miles too. Try it on fresh pineapple. Yum!

[mccfluff]

i put salt on fresh pineapple too!

[Theoldsilver]

Alternatively I like celery dipped in sugar!

[annie0000]

I always have black pepper both on strawberrys and fresh pineapple, but I have never tried salt. Banana sandwiches always benefit from Brown sauce.

Incidently, I am always getting teased at work for washing my fruit with soap - usually washing up liquid, but I do use the hand soap at work. I don't think that water alone gets the horrible coating and other peoples greasy hand debris off. I always rinse them properly and they never taste soapy, but apparantly I am weird and some people don't bother to wash them at all.

[chitchat]

A girl I used to work with put salt on her apples! I thought it was an Asian thing coz she was the first person I saw doing it and I had never heard of it before. You are the second - very strange!!

[FUZZYBEE]

All of my family put salt on apples, especially cooking apples....yummy!!

[BillStickers]

I am really glad to hear that other people do it too, and that it is delicious because of science rather than eccentricity!

[butterfly23]

Make a fruit salad with spices its great.
Just chop up a selection of favourite fruit, add salt, pepper, lemon juice and if you like sugar. You can also add other spices too like ground mango powder, tamarind, red chilly.

Salt and black pepper on melon is great too (not watermelon), and on guava.