Well, many diets exclude added salt, and I know one person who eats her food so salty nobody else can stand it. She likes it, and her blood pressure is normal because she has a diagnosed sodium deficiency. She'll get sick if she doesn't do that. *shrug* Takes all kinds to make a world.

The reason they cop out here is because all other spices balance with each other. Salt is its own thing and affects the taste buds directly instead of indirectly via scent.

I feel you on cilantro, though. My taste in cilantro is leave that thing out of my food, tyvm. (I'm in that 10% of the population that think it tastes like soap.)