The word 'saltiness' is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use 'saltiness' when referring to the taste or quality of being salty. It is often used to describe food or drinks, but can also be used in a figurative sense. Example: The soup had a perfect balance of sweetness and saltiness. The salty air reminded him of his childhood by the seaside.
Yet saltiness isn't intrinsically reason-giving; something can be too salty or not salty enough, nor is there a perfect amount of saltiness.
Sweetness and acidity are needed to offset the saltiness of the cheese usually eaten with it.
While bitterness and saltiness can be important in cocktails, Rachel tells us, the balance between sweetness and acidity is paramount.
This process, which tends to equalise the saltiness of the two solutions, is called osmosis.
When supplies ran out, some consumers turned to soy sauce and fermented bean curd, because of their saltiness.
Every nine days the robots dive to 2km and then slowly come up to the surface, recording the temperature, saltiness and speed of currents they encounter along the way.
The fresh water seems to have diluted the Gulf Stream's saltiness and thus weakened its flow.That, fear climate-change watchers, is what could happen as the Arctic ice melts.
New seeds have been developed which can survive flooding, and soon there will be varieties that tolerate drought, extreme heat and saltiness, too, making the poorest lands fertile.
The animals' responses to the other four fundamentals of taste bitterness, sourness, saltiness and "umami" (the flavour of monosodium glutamate)—were unaffected.
Initially scientists from the Centre for Water Research feared that the brine discharge from the plant would increase the saltiness of the coastal environment.
Where the Japanese version uses sake to eliminate any fishy overtones and miso to highlight the fish's natural saltiness, the Western version relies on the far sweeter mirin.
