Why recipes tell you to add sugar and a little salt?

What's the function of the salt? What happen if u don't put the salt?Why recipes tell you to add sugar and a little salt?
Salt is a flavour enhancer. If you never added salt to any food then it'd all taste good, but add salt to one item and the taste of that would seem more intense. The problem is then thay add salt to everything, so everything is all at the same level, so they add more, and then more, its a vicious circle. A great deal is added in commercial cooking.





If you don't add any salt, the food may taste a little bland at first but soon you won't notice.





Nowadays we know that too much salt is bad for ones health. And we eat too much salt.





Some time ago I stopped adding salt when cooking. Remember that you can always add salt to the food on your plate if you want to. I have not found it necessary to add salt to any cooking - it is not necessary when boiling vegetbles or pasta (its a complete myth that it raises the temperature of the boiling water)





So give it a go.





Sugar -- well the sad fact is we like sweet things, and commercial food preparers add sugar for that very reason, even to things that you wouldn't expect to find it in (and they disguise it by using alternate names such as glucose)





You often don't need to add sugar - say you are making an apple pie -- that doesn't need sugar, you don't sprinkle sugar on a raw apple, so why cooked? Why should everything be sweet?





There are some things that only work because of sugar -- such as cream brullee when the caramalisation of sugar makes the crisp top.





Recipes are only suggestions. Try for yourself, gradually cut down and see howlow you can go on sugar and salt, and whether food tastes better without it. I'll bet you it does!Why recipes tell you to add sugar and a little salt?
u lose all the falvering of the food that is what i know.
salt is just to add flavor ';i think'; nothing happens if you don't use the salt...i make all kinds of things that require salt and either use just a little (not what the recipe calls for) or just exclude it. I don't think it changes the taste at all!
Most recipes ask for sugar and salt because when you cook the food it also is using energy...the sugar gives a boost...second salt brings out the flavor in any food as long as you dont over do it....just a dash.