Dominic T. wrote:
> I would like you to please tell me how the salts among other minerals,
> added AFTER the fact are not simply enhancing the flavors present just
> as in my example.

I didn't mean to start an argument; just share a possibly useful
observation and suggest some possibly interesting explanations.

> ... the only option left to "explain"
> DogMa's theory is exactly the same as the theories behind homeopathy.
> Better yet, since it is not your "discovery," I would love to have
> Dogma attempt to clear this up.

I never claimed to be the discoverer of the putative effect, except on a
personal basis. And please be more moderate in your generalizations
("the only option") and imputations. I consider homeopathy to be bunkum
as a methodology beyond the undeniable placebo effect. I thought I had
offered a pair of plausible inferences: salts as flavor potentiators via
modified chemical transduction at the taste buds, modification of
local neurochemistry, and/or cortex-level synthesis. The part I found
most interesting was the persistence effect. To address this, I further
proposed that ions may be stored in taste-related tissues - nothing
mystical about that, and lots of scientists probably already know if
this is the case..

> I knew that anyone who could back DogMa's original statements had to
> have some connection or belief in homeopathy because that was what it
> was all basically based around.

I am not offended, but you are incorrect.

-DM