salty is the first of the five flavors. Life has five flavors, sweet and sour, bitter and salty. Salty taste is the taste of salt, and other tastes are based on Yan. Without salt, other tastes will be dull. Any dish, the first taste we eat is salty. For example, sour, sweet and sour dishes must also be salty in order to be a delicious sour and sweet (sour and sweet) dish. Therefore, five flavors of a dish can be short of anything, but it can't be short of salty flavor, otherwise the other flavors won't play a big role. You can put less salt, but you must never put it away.

And salt is an indispensable trace element for our human body. If people eat too little salt, they will be prone to loss of appetite, limb weakness, and even anorexia and increased heart rate. And now we often eat iodized salt, but also to prevent big neck disease, goiter.

In ancient times, salt merchants were the biggest business. Since ancient times, people have known that it is impossible not to eat salt. Moreover, there is a saying that "a good cook has a handful of salt". In ancient times, when a daughter got married and went back to her mother's house for the first time, she had to give her the most precious gift, that is, a pack of salt. I remember there was an old movie "Sparkling Red Star", in which there was a clip in which ordinary people risked their lives and cleverly broke through the encirclement of the Kuomintang army to send salt to the Red Army, which lacked salt. This also proves that salt is indispensable in our life.

In my family, as long as there is salt, my mother can cook all kinds of delicious food without much materials, such as salted chicken and clear water shrimp. Stir-fried vegetables are very delicious with only a touch of salt. There are also cold salad dishes that are often eaten in summer. As long as there is salt, it tastes delicious and so on. So salty must be the first of the five flavors.