How many tastes are there?

[Martinus]

Sweet
Sour
Bitter
Salty

Is "savoury" a separate taste or not? I think some people think it is, but others don't. 

[Admiral Yi]

I learned four.

[The Brain]

Have you dissected this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taste

[PDH]

There is a fifth tase sense too, umami.  Umami is the taste of glutamate.  Savory has nothing do do with taste, he was not even a good general.

[Martinus]

There is a fifth tase sense too, umami.  Umami is the taste of glutamate.  Savory has nothing do do with taste, he was not even a good general.

Isn't is called the "meaty" aka "savoury" taste, actually? It's like the soy sauce, no?

[Ed Anger]

I think we all agree that marti has no taste.

[PDH]

I think we all agree that marti has no taste.

He is the zero-taste.

[Ed Anger]

I think we all agree that marti has no taste.

He is the zero-taste.

The Un-person.

[Caliga]

There is a fifth tase sense too, umami.  Umami is the taste of glutamate.

Correct, hence the need for MSG.

[vinraith]

There is a fifth tase sense too, umami.  Umami is the taste of glutamate.  Savory has nothing do do with taste, he was not even a good general.

Isn't is called the "meaty" aka "savoury" taste, actually? It's like the soy sauce, no?

Yup, it's just "savory" with a retarded Japanese name.

[Josquius]

There is indeed five.

[garbon]

Zero calories, same great taste.

[syk]

I learned that the tongue can differentiate 4 tastes, all others are actually smells. Or rather stimuli to the nose nerve.

[Alatriste]

How many tastes are there? Two. Good and none.

Signed: Georges Brummell and Petronius Arbiter.

[PDH]

Yup, it's just "savory" with a retarded Japanese name.

A Japanese researcher discovers it, he gets to name it.