Why is water tasteless?
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It isn’t necessarily tasteless but it’s what our body and mind has come to regard as neutral, so we perceive it as being tasteless.
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It has a taste drink water from ur kitchen and then drink water from your bathroom. There is typically a slightly different taste. Water is what we use for our baseline. If we drank milk like we drink water you would be asking why milk doesn’t have a taste.
Taste is sort of like a set of keys and locks.
When you taste chocolate, that’s a chocolate chemical, or “key”, that comes in and turns the chocolate “lock” on your tongue. That sends a message to your brain telling you that you tasted chocolate.
What this means is you can only taste “keys” that fit your tongue’s “locks”.
You have locks for a bunch of things on your tongue. We have sugar locks to detect sugar, salt locks to detect salt, etc.
We *don’t* however, have any locks for water. So, when water comes into your mouth, there’s no way for the water to turn any locks and send a message to your brain. No message to your brain, no taste.
Because none of your tastebuds are activated when you drink water. Your tastebuds are activated by salt, sweet, bitter, sour, spicy, umami. When nothing is activated, it tastes like nothing
Water is tasteless because for us it’s more important to notice if water tastes anything else but tasteless. A bad tate would indicate there’s something wrong with it, therefore should be avoided.
Food has taste because there’s so many varieties of it, so there can’t really be a neutral, but water is the only liquid we need, therefore it’s the default taste.
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