I was searching for the distinction between “savory” and “umami” and apparently savory encompasses a variety of tastes. I agree that it does but wouldn’t those be tastes that exist in addition to umami and the other four tastes?
Also I know the nose can recognize many more different chemicals and that it plays a role in taste perception, but I’m pretty sure there’s more than five types of taste when I eat even without a sense of smell. This is IMO the kind of question that should be obvious but isn’t answered.
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The 5 tastes aren’t really the flavors you taste, they are more like senses that cause the body to have different reactions. Flavors primarily come from the sense of smell. However, your brain will interpret flavors differently depending on which tastes are sensed. And the many flavors are due to the few thousand flavor compounds and their varying proportions in the food.
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