Drinking water absolutrly has a taste. You’re just used to it. Not so if you drink somewhere else.
really makes you think
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MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 43 minutes ago
hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I could see that water being “neutral” on taste for most people is probably evolutionary. But I’m just speculating.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Water is neutral in taste the same way that CO is scentless - it is literally too small for the things to pick it up.
SGforce@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
You can taste both water and CO. You just need to alter your typical concentration and get used to that, then switch back to a normal concentration. “Normal” will now have a taste. Even distilled water will have a taste, since you are probably used to bottled or filtered.
474D@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Am I weird in that I definitely can taste water?
FishFace@piefed.social 1 day ago
Water tastes neutral because your taste receptors are constantly exposed to water because it’s universally present in and on living tissue. You don’t sense things that are constantly there.
rockerface@lemmy.cafe 1 day ago
In the same way that the sunlight’s spectrum has the most energy of green wavelengths, which are conveniently in the middle of the light spectrum visible by humans.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Water does have flavor, depending on the mineral content. I’ve always had to get used to the taste of the water when I start in a new area.
Cruxifux@feddit.nl 1 day ago
I think spit is a better one. Spit tastes fine in our mouths, its always there, youre tasting it right now. Now spit in a cup and drink it immediately. I dry heaved just typing this.
riot@fedia.io 1 day ago
tbh, for me it's more about the texture of it and not so much taste, lmao. something about the bubbles, when you spit, yuck. carbonated spit 😭
Cruxifux@feddit.nl 21 hours ago
Ok, drool into a cup then and try to drink that.
taylor_says@lemmy.zip 13 hours ago
Water does have a flavor. It’s water flavored.
Cerothen@lemmy.ca 14 hours ago
Rabies is a condition that lets you taste water for it’s real flavor
Smeagol666@crazypeople.online 14 hours ago
Maybe that’s why they used to call it “hydrophobia”.
Dasus@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Hydrophobia is still very much the name of one of the symptoms that rabies has.
As in a doctor might write “patient exhibits hydrophobia, rabies suspected” or something. Although most doctors wouldn’t ever be in a situation like that, but still.
eru@mouse.chitanda.moe 16 hours ago
flavor is an experience created by your brain (or at least, created subjectively internal to an agent if you don’t want to accept that conscious experiences are fully explained physically)
what if water really has a flavor but our brains filter it out
so this makes no sense, flavor just is what you experience.
Dasus@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
The reason we’ve evolved to tune out whatever taste water may have, is because we need to be able to detect when there’s shit in it. Literally. But also anything else non-suitable.
Which is why waters taste slightly different as we never drink distilled water really. Not that it’s somehow toxic, but drinking only distilled water when there’s no food and then sweating a lot would dehydrate you eventually.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 14 hours ago
But we’re 60% water so we taste it all the time.
bbboi@feddit.uk 14 hours ago
Imagine always having a taste in your mouth.
Zacryon@feddit.org 1 day ago
Different waters taste differently. Tap water taste differs from region to region. Bottled water tastes differently between brands and also compared to tap water. This is also caused by varying amounts of minerals.
If you think your sense of taste works fine, but can not tell taste differences in water, try making direct comparisons. Take some bottled water and some tap water (if it is safe for drinking whereever you live). Then take a sip, focus on the taste. Try making out differences. Repeat a couple of times.
If you still can’t make out any differences and you weren’t impatient, it might be worth training your sense of taste first, because water does have a flavour.boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 hours ago
It’s not that the water itself has flavour, but the solution does have some. There’s usually minerals in most water. Distilled water being an exception.
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Most bottled water is tap water
bbboi@feddit.uk 14 hours ago
There is a difference between tap water and water. Tap water is nowhere near pure water.
finley@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Water has a flavor. It has different flavors, depending on how clean it is, too. At least it does for me…
Pechente@feddit.org 1 day ago
And not just that, the different mineral compositions give it a different flavor too. Sometimes when traveling here in Germany, I‘m filling my water bottle with regional tap water and often I‘m glad how good the tap water at home tastes compared to what you can get in other regions.
Zoot@reddthat.com 1 day ago
In the other regions defense, I’m sure they might say the same about your water simply because it’s different.
Unless you’re talking well water, that stuff can have a gnarly Sulfur smell to it, though still safe. Can’t seem to get used to that kinda smell though lol
socsa@piefed.social 1 day ago
It depends on the color of the la Croix can
bbboi@feddit.uk 13 hours ago
Right. But are you tasting the water or the junk in the water?
youpie@lemmy.emphisia.nl 1 day ago
my favorite drink at friends houses who live in different places is their tap water. they all taste so different
Smeagol666@crazypeople.online 14 hours ago
I moved from Nebraska to North Carolina 20 years ago and still haven’t adjusted to the nasty taste of chlorinated water. I guess it’s better than getting cholera or e. coli.
TheFunkyMonk@lemmy.world 1 day ago
My friend is going through chemo treatment, which is wrecking their tastebuds in various ways, and they told me after each infusion they can’t stand the “texture” of water for a few days. Thankfully, it’s also wrecking their cancer!
MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
Are they pissing lots of the cancer out?
TheFunkyMonk@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Yes!
besmtt@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I had surgery in my mouth and for months I’ve had problems with my sense of taste. Water has sometimes tasted bad. FML
manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Get yourself some sugar free cordial or something, it helps. Get a water filter maybe? They’re expensive though
I’m really sensitive to tastes and smells, lots of treated drinking water tastes foul to me
besmtt@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
I appreciate the thought and comment.
Every single piece of candy tastes awful, sugar free or regular. Water tasting bad seems to come and go, but whenever it happens all water tastes bad. Tap, softened, filtered, bottled, iced, boiled, everything. Even my own spit can taste bad.
Some things are getting better though, very few things taste metallic anymore. Maybe just honey. But honestly this has been going on for so long that I don’t even enjoy eating and as of a month or so ago I’ve quit looking for foods that taste good. I’ve just been sticking with what tastes the least bad. 😮💨
Thanks though.
9point6@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Could be the other way, our brains nerfing the incredible flavour so we don’t all die of hyperhydration
anistorian@lemmy.world 1 day ago
True. Nothing has innate taste. So the taste of water is whatever we needed it to be.
kayzeekayzee@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Flavor --> Can’t taste it.
Contradiction of definitions
FrostyTrichs@crazypeople.online 1 day ago
Crossposted to !weedtime@crazypeople.online, hopefully that’s cool 💚
SGforce@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Oh you said CO? I misread that as CO2. Yeah I don’t know about monoxide
caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 26 minutes ago
Your lungs have a smell