really makes you think
23h 24m ago by lemmy.world/u/kali_fornication in lemmyshitpost
I could see that water being "neutral" on taste for most people is probably evolutionary. But I'm just speculating.
Water is neutral in taste the same way that CO is scentless - it is literally too small for the things to pick it up.
Am I weird in that I definitely can taste water?
You've got sensors for acidity and alkalinity, but water is almost never truly neutral, so for sure you can taste that. You can also taste/smell a bunch of other stuff in water, like salt, other minerals, or chemicals like chlorine.
No
You can taste both water and CO. You just need to alter your typical concentration and get used to that, then switch back to a normal concentration. "Normal" will now have a taste. Even distilled water will have a taste, since you are probably used to bottled or filtered.
A concentration of what in what? The "taste" of water is the impurities, not the H2O itself
I'm guessing you can taste the impurities missing from distilled water. It's probably closer to being able to tell it's not quite right then an actual taste, but that's close enough to be able to call it taste.
Yes indeed, you can perceive it but it's not out of sensory stimulation - rather the lack thereof.
No really, you can taste distilled water.
In the same way that the sunlight's spectrum (or at least the part of it that reaches the Earth's surface) has the most energy of green wavelengths, which are conveniently in the middle of the light spectrum visible by humans.
Water tastes neutral because your taste receptors are constantly exposed to water because it's universally present in and on living tissue. You don't sense things that are constantly there.
I think spit is a better one. Spit tastes fine in our mouths, its always there, youre tasting it right now. Now spit in a cup and drink it immediately. I dry heaved just typing this.
tbh, for me it's more about the texture of it and not so much taste, lmao. something about the bubbles, when you spit, yuck. carbonated spit 😭
Ok, drool into a cup then and try to drink that.
Water has a flavor. It has different flavors, depending on how clean it is, too. At least it does for me…
And not just that, the different mineral compositions give it a different flavor too. Sometimes when traveling here in Germany, I‘m filling my water bottle with regional tap water and often I‘m glad how good the tap water at home tastes compared to what you can get in other regions.
In the other regions defense, I'm sure they might say the same about your water simply because it's different.
Unless you're talking well water, that stuff can have a gnarly Sulfur smell to it, though still safe. Can't seem to get used to that kinda smell though lol
Water quality varies quite a bit. The water in Seattle is significantly better than the water in Florida, for example.
Funny story relating to that, when I was 5 I was told that you couldn't dig more than 6 a few feet in Florida because you would hit the "water line," so I assumed that if you dug further you'd just hit the ocean and drown. Also yes the water there tastes like sulfur all the time and it's nasty af, had to learn to get over my aversion to water after living there early on.
So silly! The water line in Florida is much shallower than that.
You're absolutely right, I didn't think too hard about that part of the story and that kid-brain interpreted "a few feet" as "as tall as my dad."
The water line in Florida is above the ground
Here in lies the funny part, water line (edge of the water) vs water line (pipe that transfers water).
Florida water is weird here in the NW. Tap water is fairly "hot" in the summer since the lines are close to the surface. But YMMV. Our bathroom water is distinctly different than the kitchen water, in a tiny house, 8-years old. 🤷🏻♂️
It depends on the color of the la Croix can
my favorite drink at friends houses who live in different places is their tap water. they all taste so different
My friend is going through chemo treatment, which is wrecking their tastebuds in various ways, and they told me after each infusion they can’t stand the “texture” of water for a few days. Thankfully, it’s also wrecking their cancer!
Different waters taste differently. Tap water taste differs from region to region. Bottled water tastes differently between brands and also compared to tap water. This is also caused by varying amounts of minerals.
If you think your sense of taste works fine, but can not tell taste differences in water, try making direct comparisons. Take some bottled water and some tap water (if it is safe for drinking whereever you live). Then take a sip, focus on the taste. Try making out differences. Repeat a couple of times.
If you still can't make out any differences and you weren't impatient, it might be worth training your sense of taste first, because water does have a flavour.
Could be the other way, our brains nerfing the incredible flavour so we don't all die of hyperhydration
True. Nothing has innate taste. So the taste of water is whatever we needed it to be.
I had surgery in my mouth and for months I've had problems with my sense of taste. Water has sometimes tasted bad. FML
Get yourself some sugar free cordial or something, it helps. Get a water filter maybe? They're expensive though
I'm really sensitive to tastes and smells, lots of treated drinking water tastes foul to me
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Flavor --> Can't taste it.
Contradiction of definitions
Oh you said CO? I misread that as CO2. Yeah I don't know about monoxide