Can we taste more than just bitter, salty, sour, sweet and umami?
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Date: 2021-04-06
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Matt
There are two terms filipinos use that don't exactly translate well into english. One is Umay. While you can describe it as getting fed up after a sensory overload of what you are, it can also be described as that feeling when you know the animal fat in the food you're eating is starting to coagulate as the food temperature starts to cool.
The other term is Lansa. White it can be translated into fishy, best way I could describe it is if the fish is too oily, or not cooked well enough, or that feeling when you don't put any type of citrus into a fish dish, that somehow cuts that fishiness
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There are two terms filipinos use that don't exactly translate well into english. One is Umay. While you can describe it as getting fed up after a sensory overload of what you are, it can also be described as that feeling when you know the animal fat in the food you're eating is starting to coagulate as the food temperature starts to cool.
The other term is Lansa. White it can be translated into fishy, best way I could describe it is if the fish is too oily, or not cooked well enough, or that feeling when you don't put any type of citrus into a fish dish, that somehow cuts that fishiness
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FinetalPies
I once argued with someone that my definition of taste is when you taste something and that's what it's taste is. They accused me of relying on a circular definition so I asked what theirs was and it was it's something you detect with your taste receptors.
Every definition is circular I'm sorry.
Semantics aside there's a lot of fun science going on with the various receptors we use and what chemicals activate them.
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I once argued with someone that my definition of taste is when you taste something and that's what it's taste is. They accused me of relying on a circular definition so I asked what theirs was and it was it's something you detect with your taste receptors.
Every definition is circular I'm sorry.
Semantics aside there's a lot of fun science going on with the various receptors we use and what chemicals activate them.
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ladyofthemasque
The trick with using distilled water for taste tests is that it must be distilled entirely via glass instruments and glass bottling methods, as glass is the only substance that will not impart a flavor. Plastic jugs of distilled water are not entirely pure water, especially if that jug has gotten warm. The distilled water stored in a plastic jug does genuinely pick up a very distinct plastic-y flavor.
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The trick with using distilled water for taste tests is that it must be distilled entirely via glass instruments and glass bottling methods, as glass is the only substance that will not impart a flavor. Plastic jugs of distilled water are not entirely pure water, especially if that jug has gotten warm. The distilled water stored in a plastic jug does genuinely pick up a very distinct plastic-y flavor.
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T4eTurtleC1ub
I'll give you an example of water that tastes tasteless to me - Liquid Death, from an aluminum can. That water, to me, is refreshingly tasteless, and it's the best water I've had. All other water I drink has somewhat of a sweetness to it that I can't really explain. It's not that other water is bad, I generally drink water from the tap anyway, but water from different sources absolutely has flavor.
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I'll give you an example of water that tastes tasteless to me - Liquid Death, from an aluminum can. That water, to me, is refreshingly tasteless, and it's the best water I've had. All other water I drink has somewhat of a sweetness to it that I can't really explain. It's not that other water is bad, I generally drink water from the tap anyway, but water from different sources absolutely has flavor.
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Fiurgeist
ability to taste minerals makes absolute sense to me
there are certain bottled waters that taste absolutely disgusting to me and that must come down to the different mineral content based on the spring they're from
also Fleur de Sel definitely tastes not just like table salt, probably because it's less pure, containing a bunch of other minerals from the ocean
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ability to taste minerals makes absolute sense to me
there are certain bottled waters that taste absolutely disgusting to me and that must come down to the different mineral content based on the spring they're from
also Fleur de Sel definitely tastes not just like table salt, probably because it's less pure, containing a bunch of other minerals from the ocean
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Rachel
100% people can taste water, I just didn't realize it until I lived in a place where you can't drink tap water. My whole life growing up I just had tap water so it all tasted the same, but in Bulgaria, Russia, Turkey etc where you have to buy bottled water you can taste a big difference based on the brand/source and people have STRONG opinions on it.
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100% people can taste water, I just didn't realize it until I lived in a place where you can't drink tap water. My whole life growing up I just had tap water so it all tasted the same, but in Bulgaria, Russia, Turkey etc where you have to buy bottled water you can taste a big difference based on the brand/source and people have STRONG opinions on it.
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Nvenom8
I really don't buy the water one. Just from a logical standpoint, when are your taste buds ever not in contact with water? They're moist 100% of the time. If they weren't wet, they wouldn't even work. If you could perceive a taste of water at all, it would be a constant background noise that your brain would tune out because it's never absent.
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I really don't buy the water one. Just from a logical standpoint, when are your taste buds ever not in contact with water? They're moist 100% of the time. If they weren't wet, they wouldn't even work. If you could perceive a taste of water at all, it would be a constant background noise that your brain would tune out because it's never absent.
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Stephen
i bet your brain has a ton to do with flavor, too. it takes the raw smells and raw tastes and (and raw temperature, pressure, texture) perceptions and immediately picks a little neuron for each flavor. if we don't know how flavor and olfactory senses COMPLETELY work, there's no way to count the distinct senses your tongue will do.
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i bet your brain has a ton to do with flavor, too. it takes the raw smells and raw tastes and (and raw temperature, pressure, texture) perceptions and immediately picks a little neuron for each flavor. if we don't know how flavor and olfactory senses COMPLETELY work, there's no way to count the distinct senses your tongue will do.
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Tilde
I know that people love to WeLl AcKtOoAlLeE this, but to me savory is the English word for umami. I literally learned it in school in the 90s - sweet, sour, bitter, salty, savory. I don't see any reason why we shouldn't just call it savory and feel completely gaslit when people act like it was never referred to that way.
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I know that people love to WeLl AcKtOoAlLeE this, but to me savory is the English word for umami. I literally learned it in school in the 90s - sweet, sour, bitter, salty, savory. I don't see any reason why we shouldn't just call it savory and feel completely gaslit when people act like it was never referred to that way.
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