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Does water have a taste?
Topic Started: Apr 20 2015, 11:40 AM (845 Views)
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Please, someone tell me they also think still water has a taste. Otherwise I think I'll take the first flight to Saturn, where at least I won't be an alien.
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It must have a taste since some water tastes different from others. The water at my dads house is hard water and it tastes quite a bit different from the water at my mums.
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Yeah, I dislike the taste of bottled water, and prefer tap water, but I can also taste tap water differences between regions.

It's a very subtle taste, I assume based on mineral content?
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INTERESTING QUESTION

You see, water, by itself has no taste, since the requirement for you to taste something is for it to dissolve in water and be picked up by your taste buds, and pretty much everything you eat dissolves into water. It is also the very reason why licking granite is tasteless.

Now of course you wonder why does water have a sort of a taste then? What is that? Well simply put, there are elements and minerals dissolved into the water. That is what you taste. Not the water itself.

isn't it odd how you cannot really know what water would taste like?
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Why is it that I feel a sudden urge to lick granite? ::P:

Then, if I taste something, has it necessarily dissolved in water? Can't we taste a substance which does not have water in it?
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I think that what Tich meant is that we can taste water because it has minerals in it, and the taste of water is the taste of the minerals, I asume that drinking distilled water would be completly flavorless. (but I heard it can make you sick, but I am not sure)

But you do pose an interesting question, but we canīt taste a completly dry substance because our salive would water it down a bit
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Nikki
Apr 20 2015, 03:55 PM
Why is it that I feel a sudden urge to lick granite? ::P:

Then, if I taste something, has it necessarily dissolved in water? Can't we taste a substance which does not have water in it?
Well partially dissolved a tiny bit, it's not a lot actually. The substance itself doesn't need to have water in it, it only needs to dissolve in water. or your saliva.
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I am still confused. Why does it have to be dissolved in water? Can't taste buds react directly to the substance, even if its not dissolved in water?
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Apr 20 2015, 05:09 PM
I am still confused. Why does it have to be dissolved in water? Can't taste buds react directly to the substance, even if its not dissolved in water?
While I don't know completely, the thing is, for the taste buds to detect the substance it has to get transferred through water, cause it's a weird system inside the taste bud. The water is just essential as transfer stuff since you are mostly water.
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Taste buds work when dissolved proteins, minerals, acids, etc. bind to the appropriate receptors and trigger a signal to your brain.

The receptors are tiny, like cell-sized I think. So chunks of solid food won't bind to them, has to be the size of dissolved molecules to fit the receptors.

I would say "water has a taste" because even though you are tasting the dissolved minerals, they could be considered part of the "ingredient" for the beverage you are consuming.
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It does! Well, not in the strictly literal sense because of what Tich is saying, but definitely. I usually find it slightly bitter, especially if it's not well-filtered.
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But even if there are no molecules in distilled water, perhaps it changes the concentration of molecules in your saliva, so you get a small taste reaction from your taste buds? Anyway, next time I go to the grocery shop, I'll get some distilled water and solve the problem once and for all. Also, next time I see granite...
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Brings us to the next question, does saliva have taste, hahaha
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... it does, doesn't it?
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You'll have to taste the taste of no-saliva in order to compare the difference!
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