Not for any commercial or health reasons, just make/find a substitute that gives the same taste?
Making a salt substitute that actually tasted like salt would make you richer than Bill Gates. (Assuming that it wasn’t even less healthy.) Pretty much every food company in the world is frantically trying and has been for decades.
They haven’t come up with one, so I’m guessing it can’t be done. It’s in the same league with the car that runs on water in place of gasoline.
I’ve tried NoSalt, and I couldn’t tell a difference.
Me, neither. (Either?)
The master speaks.
Can salt substitute kill you?
So, what is NoSalt? Some homegrown combination of Nitrous Oxide and bath salts? It is not so much that you cannot tell the difference, it is just that you do not care…
But seriously, what is in NoSalt?
Go down one notch in your periodic table: potassium chloride. But, apparently, it’s a little more complicated than that: Potassium Chloride, Potassium Bitartrate, Adipic Acid, Silicon Dioxide, Mineral Oil and Fumaric Acid.
You are the salt of the earth!
And if that salt has lost its flavor
it ain’t got much in its favor.
You can’t have that fault and be the salt of the earth!
I kind of wish we could “like” posts now, because Godspell doesn’t get half the attention it deserves…
Gaaaaa! I could. That stuff tastes like crystalline battery acid mixed with dog shit.
One taste and I threw the bottle out.
Who knew that Jesus was referring to potassium chloride?
Don’t know about the others, but I’m pretty sure the Silicon Dioxide (i.e. sand) is just there for texture.
I agree that NoSalt is disgusting, but I’m a bit horrified that you know what that combination tastes like. 
Spring Break, man.
Educated guess. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
people will go to just about any length to get salt (or a substitute); wars have been fought over it.
Anybody who can’t taste the difference between KCl and NaCl should have their tongue examined. Maybe you injured it in a rock-climbing accident.
KCl is so nasty tasting that back when I taught physical geology lab we used to put a piece of sylvite in with the mineral samples just to reinforce the “don’t lick rocks” guideline. Dastardly, yes, but you should have seen their faces.
Further, KCl is salt. It’s a different salt than the familiar NaCl, of course, but it’s still salt.
It’s also poisonous. Probably not enough so that a healthy adult need worry about it, but it’s a really bad idea for anyone at risk for heart disease. Who, as it happens, are exactly the folks it’s marketed to.
Potassium chloride is NOT poisonous… not any more than sodium chloride, both have a LD50 of around 3 g/kg (plus NaCl causes all sorts of health problems, and people need to eat more potassium*). Perhaps you are thinking of the use of KCl in lethal injection, but that only kills because it is injected into the bloodstream; the IV LD50 is usually much lower than the oral LD50.
*Call for increased potassium intake to lower BP, cut deaths (which directly contradicts “it’s a really bad idea for anyone at risk for heart disease”)
Of course, it can accumulate in people with kidney disease, but potassium is the last thing to be concerned about if you have kidney disease severe enough for it to be a problem.
Also, as for the taste difference between NaCl and KCl, I regularly eat soups and stuff that are reduced sodium and they taste fine to me (some with over 1,000 mg of potassium per serving or 2,000 mg per can, as I eat the whole can at once, I eat them not because I have to but because it is healthier, see above article).