Salty and metallic taste of natural compounds and their derivatives

A brief survey of the naturally occurring compounds and their derivatives with salty taste aims to show the importance of this group of renewable materials, to contri¬bute to the knowledge of the biodiversity of secondary metabolites that can be utilized, among others, in food and pharmaceutical industry. The article is also aimed as a teaching tool for teachers and students. Mainly from the patent literature it may be seen that this topic is...