Describe the taste of water.

[Ieyke]

Water can dissolve many different substances, giving it varying tastes and odors. Animals (humans included) have developed a sense of taste to detect when water is too salty or putrid to be potable.
Spring and mineral water has a flavour derived from minerals dissolved in it, and the advertised purity of bottled spring/mineral water refers to absence of toxins, pollutants and microbes. Spring/mineral water, therefore, will still have the taste inherent to the minerals.

Flavour is the brain's interpretations of data gathered by one of its body's senses (taste). Water is the basically the lubricant that makes living creatures function by keeping blood flowing, skin flexible, and all systems moving smoothly. Every part of the human body contains water to the point that the human body itself consists of 55%-78% water.
Human saliva is composed of 98% water, while the other 2% consists of other compounds such as electrolytes, mucus, antibacterial compounds, and various enzymes.
As such, the human tongue basically incorporates the "flavour" of water into its baseline data that the brain disregards, thereby rendering pure H2O utterly tasteless and odorless.

 

[FalloutJack]

Title says it all. I have no idea how to describe it. And don't say it has no taste. o have a glass and tell me that.

Water isn't tasteless. I've had things that were tasteless. The trouble with it is twofold, however. First, it does not quite fall under the basic taste bud categories, and second...the water of one area is - in fact - found to be different from another.

For the act of understanding what water tastes like, you need use more abstract terms, such as it tastes refreshing on a hot summer day, or that it is pure or something. For the part about how water is different, let us not forget that there is hard water, soft water, well water, filtered water, and so on. Varieties all over the place.

Not everyone's opinions over water are correct, though.


Some water is, in fact, quite bitter, though that will be the mineral content talking.

 

[TheXRatedDodo]

Depends where it's from.
Tap water in the UK makes me feel ill, presumably the flouride. Spring water on the other hand? Clean, clear and refreshing, but as for flavours rather than feelings? Dunno.

 

[Hamster at Dawn]

It varies quite considerably depending on where it's from. Are we talking tap water, mineral water, mineral water from a tap, bottled water, rain water, dirty fish tank water, irradiated toilet water...

 

[Genixma]

Bizarre yet refreshing. Like a lime.

 

[viking97]

i'm pretty sure saliva can't dissolve H2O (unless some chemist wants to correct me on that) so it follows that you aren't tasting water your tasting whats in it.
so it has no taste then.

 

[mb16]

it doesnt taste of anything to you and me, as humans do not have the associated receptors and thus cant taste it. Unlike dogs, pigs, and some other mammals which can

(a bit like colour blindness)

 

[F'Angus]

Have you ever licked a Llama's back...yeah... it tastes nothing like that.

 

[silverbladz]

Pure water is tasteless, the actual taste can change depending on your region or source of water. The only thing to describe about pure water is it's texture, weight or appearance.

exactly

 

[Midnight Crossroads]

Pure water doesn't really have a flavor, but it has a hard, dry texture. I always feel like I have to drink another glass of water afterwards because of it.

Depending on what's in the water, it can range from really refreshing to tasting something like blood. I was unfortunate enough to have a well with a bit of metal in the water which left it tasting horribly like brass. I could only use it to bathe in until we finally installed a filter to take all the minerals out.

 

[mirror's edgy]

Why can no one describe water's taste? Because it is a very simple compound that all humans need in order to survive. Every type of sustenance is a more complicated organism or liquid derived from various ingredients. Water is just liquid hydrogen and oxygen, and our taste buds cannot extract much from that.

 

[Jake0fTrades]

Refreshing.

That was easy.

 

[KP Shadow]

Tap water from a well: bland, but with a slight mineral-y taste

Bottled water: bitter.

tap water from a reservoir: flavorless

Mineral water: Like tap water from a well, but better

 

[Zaik]

If your water tastes like anything, you probably need to be filtering it.

 

[Nikolaz72]

A slight taste of iron. With a hint of oxygen. Mainly tasteless. Feels like liquid (No shit)

 

[BytByte]

It tastes good. Almost like a surprise every time because you need it.

 

[Grospoliner]

Water has no taste. It's the minerals and crap in it that you taste.

 

[similar.squirrel]

Largely dependent on its source, its temperature and what your mouth tasted like to begin with.

 

[Ham_authority95]

Title says it all. I have no idea how to describe it. And don't say it has no taste. o have a glass and tell me that.

There's lots of chlorine in the water where I live. Kind of like it all went through rubber hoses. It tastes like that.

 

[Tiscolfo]

Like Dihydrogen Monoxide?