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There are currently thought to be five basic tastes:
Until recently, most Western sources listed only the first four of these flavors; in recent years, umami/savory has become widely, though not universally, accepted (there is even a restaurant by that name which proposes to serve only foods containing that taste).
In general, the sense of taste is often confused by smells that occur at the same time, and much of the everyday sensation of taste is at least partially derived from smell stimuli. Loss of the sense of smell ( anosmia), for example when one has a cold, severely reduces one's sense of taste.
Historically, how we sense taste has been misunderstood. For many years, books on the physiology of human taste contained diagrams of the tongue showing levels of sensitivity to different tastes in different regions. There is no scientific foundation for these "maps", which were based on a misinterpretation of old research.
According to an ancient Chinese understanding of taste that is part of the Five ElementsIn Chinese Taoist thought, things in nature can be classified into five types: metal, wood, earth, water, fire ( Chinese: ). These Five Elements ( wxing) are not just the materials that the names refer to, but rather metaphors and symbols for describing h philosophy, there are five basic tastes, which lists spicyness instead of umami in the above list.
Monell chemical senses center: http://www.monell.org/
| Basic tastes
Bitter - Salty - Sour - Sweet - Umami |
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