why does water taste like nothing?

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Answer 1

It does if there are a lot of minerals in it as well as chlorine. When I was a kid we used to visit relatives in Michigan and I remember their water stank to high heavens and tasted like shitt. I could not understand how anyone could ever drink that stuff. It was bad bad bad.

Answer 2

I guess because water is the most plentiful substance in our body. We are made mostly of water. Water is essential for life like no other single substance. There are many foods, and beverages - but they all contain water. Water is essential for life, therefore it tastes like nothing so that no one has a chance to dislike the taste. With all foods that have a taste some people may dislike it. Since water tastes like nothing, no one can dislike the taste, and that is good because we all need it to drink. So really, it's a biological advantage to have it taste like nothing!

Another thing: it's a good way for us to tell if water is healthy or not. If it tastes like something, you know there might be something wrong with it... wheras if it tastes like nothing you know it's fine. This isn't the case with other foods and beverages where the taste can cover up the problem with the food, making you think that bad food is OK when really it's not.

Answer 3

Actually tap water from different localities can have quite different taste, depending on where the water comes from, how it is treated, the nature of the city's pipelines, etc. You get used to your local water and consider it "tasteless", but someone coming to visit from another area may not like the taste of your local water. The tase of course is not actually the water, but the various substances dissolved in it. If you really want to see what water itself tastes like, buy a bottle of distilled water. That's pretty tasteless.

Answer 4

tasting sense is related to the chemical structure of molecules and functional groups.

sucrose, glycerin, glucose, fructose all are sweet. since they have plenty of hydroxyl groups.

acids are sour in taste because of H+ ion
and so on....
water has no interaction with taste nodules as well as olfactory nodules. so it has no smell or taste inless otherwise the presence of salts or other minerals.

Answer 5

you're equivocating on the be conscious "not something". The fact "water tastes like not something" is one that announces there is not something which incorporates style which would be in comparison as a manner to furnish you a extra appropriate thought of what water tastes LIKE. it somewhat is not one that treats not something as some actual element that has existence. somewhat, it somewhat is purely laziness. the lack of ability of ideal rationalization. "Water would not style like something which has style" could be a extra appropriate way of putting it; besides the undeniable fact that, being lazy we purely say "not something". desire this helps.

Answer 6

Humans cannot taste the water, they can only taste any chemicals or impurities in the water. We don't have the taste buds to taste it, other mammals such as dogs and pigs, however, can taste it.

Answer 7

i live in florida and pizza here sux. i'm originally from new jersey and their pizza is so good its not even funny. pple here said its B-cause of water in NY/NJ makes the sauce good.

Answer 8

Hmm, i feel that "taste" is a rather subjective word though.

Answer 9

cause that's how it is