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Title: How many tastes are there?
Post by: Martinus on April 07, 2009, 12:37:11 PM
Sweet
Sour
Bitter
Salty

Is "savoury" a separate taste or not? I think some people think it is, but others don't.  :huh:
Title: Re: How many tastes are there?
Post by: Admiral Yi on April 07, 2009, 12:39:23 PM
I learned four.
Title: Re: How many tastes are there?
Post by: The Brain on April 07, 2009, 12:40:33 PM
Have you dissected this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taste
Title: Re: How many tastes are there?
Post by: PDH on April 07, 2009, 12:41:13 PM
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.
Title: Re: How many tastes are there?
Post by: Martinus on April 07, 2009, 12:44:13 PM
Quote from: PDH on April 07, 2009, 12:41:13 PM
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?
Title: Re: How many tastes are there?
Post by: Ed Anger on April 07, 2009, 12:53:50 PM
I think we all agree that marti has no taste.
Title: Re: How many tastes are there?
Post by: PDH on April 07, 2009, 12:55:33 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on April 07, 2009, 12:53:50 PM
I think we all agree that marti has no taste.
He is the zero-taste.
Title: Re: How many tastes are there?
Post by: Ed Anger on April 07, 2009, 12:55:54 PM
Quote from: PDH on April 07, 2009, 12:55:33 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on April 07, 2009, 12:53:50 PM
I think we all agree that marti has no taste.
He is the zero-taste.

The Un-person.
Title: Re: How many tastes are there?
Post by: Caliga on April 07, 2009, 01:06:28 PM
Quote from: PDH on April 07, 2009, 12:41:13 PM
There is a fifth tase sense too, umami.  Umami is the taste of glutamate.

Correct, hence the need for MSG.
Title: Re: How many tastes are there?
Post by: vinraith on April 07, 2009, 05:10:46 PM
Quote from: Martinus on April 07, 2009, 12:44:13 PM
Quote from: PDH on April 07, 2009, 12:41:13 PM
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.
Title: Re: How many tastes are there?
Post by: Josquius on April 07, 2009, 06:02:36 PM
There is indeed five.
Title: Re: How many tastes are there?
Post by: garbon on April 08, 2009, 12:05:47 AM
Zero calories, same great taste.
Title: Re: How many tastes are there?
Post by: syk on April 08, 2009, 04:52:50 AM
I learned that the tongue can differentiate 4 tastes, all others are actually smells. Or rather stimuli to the nose nerve.
Title: Re: How many tastes are there?
Post by: Alatriste on April 08, 2009, 07:01:07 AM
How many tastes are there? Two. Good and none.

Signed: Georges Brummell and Petronius Arbiter.
Title: Re: How many tastes are there?
Post by: PDH on April 08, 2009, 07:13:11 AM
Quote from: vinraith on April 07, 2009, 05:10:46 PM
Yup, it's just "savory" with a retarded Japanese name.
A Japanese researcher discovers it, he gets to name it.