1.   When workmen put salt on icy roads, the salt makes the ice melt and so the roads become safer for cars.

2.   And salt makes sweet preparations taste sweeter and bitter foods taste less bitter.

3.   Experts say too much salt makes fish more susceptible to diseases that in some cases can be passed on through the food chain.

4.   In cooking, salt can make or break a dish depending on how wisely it is used.

5.   Just as salt makes a hot dog plump, it helps the chops absorb the brine and makes them especially juicy.

6.   Most people find that salt makes food taste better, adding not only its own flavor but enhancing that of other foods.

7.   Salt should make the food taste more like itself.

8.   Three panelists thought the salt made the product inedible.