how is it that bitter, sour, sweet or anything tastes the way they are?
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The tongue has receptors in it, that distinguish different molecules, which the brain interprets and records, and uses for reference later on. In conjunction with the tongue, the nose differentiates smells that coincide with tastes, and are also recorded somewhere in the brain. "Taste" is actually smell and taste, as interpreted and learned by our brain! :)
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sweet, sour, salty, bitter, sleezy, sleepy, and dopey.
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it's like plain sugar but it's brown & it tastes different & it packs 2gether.\n\nYAY!!
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sweet sour bitter and salty
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acids are sour and bases are bitter.\nacids turn blue litmus red and its the other way round in bases
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Sour cream cake donuts are oh so yummy; I drink water so it will not take away from the taste. Since water refreshes the palette, the donut stays sweet;-D
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Bases have a bitter taste. Such medicines are often used as anti-acids, to combat heartburn and stuff like that.
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they cannot taste the same. it is impossible, for they have different chemical structures. the potato is primarly made of starch (which is a sugar), while the tomato has acids in it. and two things that smell the same do not always taste the same. when you smell something, you absorb through your nasal mucous membrane and analyze in your brain some volatile substances from that thing. it is possible that two things are composed from different substances, except that one that is volatile. this way, they smell the same, but do not taste alike.
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if it is i want to taste it and i wonder what kind it is???
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How did my fist taste!!!
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There are several factors in the sensation of taste.  Part of it is chemical; a rectaion to the molecules with specific receptors in an array along your tounge.  This identifies combinations of sweet, sour, salty, etc..., that you interpret according to patterns established by your brain.  Eg, if you are low on salt often high salt low sweet foods 'taste' good.\n\nSecondly, much of your taste is processed via sensory receptors in the nose.  While the basic groups (salty, etc..) are managed by the tounge, the subtlities and higher resolution taste's come from olifactory responses.  When temperature increases, some chemicals in the mixture of whatever you are eating will travel in air with a greater affinity than others, changing the concentration of molecules that land on olifactory receptors, in effect, changing the taste.\n\nThe third and most significant factor is memory and is a learned condition.  Your brain functions primarily by associations -- if the first time you ate lobster was a beautiful day, this association is likely to be made subconciously each time you eat lobster.  I, for example, remember horking the first time I tasted tequila; as a result I feel like horking again on every subsequent taste.    part of your memory with something like icecream is associated with the cold response -- its very different when warm.\n\nHave you ever took a sip of seomthing and grabbed the wrong thing, finding it disgusting b/c you were expecting something else?  As in you think its lemonade and end up with coke, so you pull away disgusted, even though you might like coke?  This is the power of subconcious effects.
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Oh absolutely!  If you eat a lot of fruit a day or so ahead of time it's more sweet and less salty or bitter.  If you eat a lot of red meat it's known to make it really bitter.  Even what you drink affects the taste.
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God...I love all flavours. Name it all, love it all. Chocolate, for its divine pure...well, chocolate taste. Strawberry for the sweet summer fruity taste. Vanilla for the creamy, simple taste. Melon for the sweet, melony taste. Cookies and Creme for the hard and soft texture with a little bit of crunchy and a little bit of sweet-tooth. Belgian Chocolate for the darkish chocolate taste. Pudding Thing (the one with caramel and egg pudding thing) for it's eggy flavor and the little bits of caramel sweetness in them. Cherry, for the unusual sweet sensational taste. Rocky Road, for the rockin' taste. Red Bean for the interesting, and healthy taste. Mango sherbet, for the sweet yet sour taste. Lemon sherbet for the ultimate sour king. Black Sesame, for the fab, delicious taste of black sesame, something which I never really liked until it was ice cream. God, I love them all. =D
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umm..\nhaha i dont know.\ni think that we all have the same amount of taste buds, but we each have different ones and in different spots on our tongue and so therefore we like different things.
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I guess that would be the difference between "sour" and "rancid"..lol \n\nInteresting question though!
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Sounds like it taste bad! check it out! Also reviews
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the middle area of the tounge i guess and the side ones are for sour taste