2007-05-28 07:01:34 · 12 answers · asked by Frango M 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
To understand this, you need to refresh yourself on the whole idea of 'Taste'.
We detect tastes through sensory organs called taste buds or gustatory calyculi, concentrated on the upper surface of the tongue. The five basic tastes can be described as: bitter, salty, sour, sweet, and umami (described as savoury or meaty). Unless the object placed on your tongue 'excites' one of these areas, it would be considered to have no taste.
The same would occur if you sucked on a marble, for example. You would say it has no taste.
Hope that helps you . . . (by the way, I've tasted water in lots of places, and I can assure you, many times the water had a taste to it. Even some bottled waters taste different.)
Have fun!
2007-05-28 08:31:35 · answer #1 · answered by Stratman 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I disagree - every time I taste water ( at least five times a day) I can distinguish its origin. For example Yorkshire water is very different from Staffordshire water but both are excellent. I drink three to five litres per day so I should know! Even distilled water has a distinctive flavour - very bland.
Water tastes like water (quelle surprise) but there are many variations - presumably on the local additives. It's my favourite drink (cider is second) Don't knock it. We'd all be dead without it!
2007-05-28 08:24:10 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it is more that we are very sensitive to impurities, and the absence tastes 'right.'
When I was 9, and we moved to a new house with a well, I thought the water tasted 'funny.' No one else could taste it, but my father took it seriously and had the well tested- turned out it was too shallow and was contaminated- so we had a new one dug. Pay attention if the water tastes like something it shouldn't!
2007-05-28 07:20:07 · answer #3 · answered by DT3238 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I should imagine the answer to this is purely subjective, i think we can all agree that drinking a glass of water is 'plain' in comparison to the earlier example of drinking either vodka or engie-oil (yum). However, not only does an experience of the same event/activity differ drasticly between individuals, the state, arrangement and receptiveness of an individuals ability to taste may vary. I believe that water is bland, that it has no analogue in my repetoire of previous taste experiences does not make it without taste.
2007-05-29 22:07:03 · answer #4 · answered by Timmy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Doesn't water have a taste ? If you drank a glass of vodka, a glass of engine oil, and a glass of water, wouldn't you taste the difference between the three ?
2007-05-28 07:15:52 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well its just hydrogen and oxygen. In plenty of places though, chemicals added to the water give it a taste. Here in my town the water take like swimming pool water because of all the chlorine.
2007-05-28 07:04:23 · answer #6 · answered by Lady Geologist 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It does it tastes of water!!
2007-05-31 04:26:33 · answer #7 · answered by LEANNE G 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In many areas they have water taste tests. Actually it is the ions in water that make it hard that give it the "no taste" that we associate with water. Distilled water which really has no taste is objectionable to many.
In some areas they have gases in the water which make them taste bad.
2007-05-28 07:19:16 · answer #8 · answered by science teacher 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I would say that our brain considers the smell and taste of water to be ambient noise. Our body (aka our nerves) senses it, but our brains ignore it.
It's like the famous cliché, you get used to the smell.
2007-05-30 02:47:45 · answer #9 · answered by Steven V 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
can't explain it. just accept it. it helps you a lot though. your body is made up mostly of water.
2007-05-30 03:30:34 · answer #10 · answered by Seungyong W 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋