Taste!

[Havanaaddict]

I thought this might be interesting to some of you!!

Taste, also known as gustation, is the human sense which drives our appetite and protects us from ingesting poisons. We taste with sensory organs [that detect chemicals] called taste buds which are located on our tongue.
 
Our taste buds are limited to sensing only five distinct tastes:
salt, sweet, sour, bitter, & umami.

Salty - Front of tongue left and right.

Sweet - Tip of tongue.

Sour- Back left and right side of tongue.

Bitter- Back center of tongue.

Umami- The whole tongue.

It is important to note that we have taste buds spread all over our tongues to differentiate the five tastes, but we perceive these tastes to have a more localized effect. For instance, we perceive sourness on the outer sides of our tongue, bitterness on the back, sweetness and saltiness on the tip, and umami throughout.
 
Salt
Saltiness is the taste produced by sodium chloride (and other salts). As with food, the perfect amount of saltiness can make flavor come alive; too much can ruin; and too little can make flavor fall flat.

Sweet
Sweetness is typically produced by the presence of sugars in a substance. Sweet flavors in natural (un-flavored) tobaccos can be subtle or pronounced. Some tobaccos, like Virginia tobaccos, naturally have a higher sugar content than others. Alternately, the sweetness can be coaxed out of tobaccos through fermentation and curing methods; as with maduro cigar wrappers. - 

Sour
Sourness, or tartness, is an indicator of acidity or acids in a substance. Too much acidity will overwhelm the palate (sense of taste) and inhibit the true flavors of tobacco (or any other delicacy) from emerging.

Bitter
Bitterness is usually an indicator of alkaloids or of an alkaline substance. The taste is usually characterized as dry and/or astringent; similar to the flavor of black coffee or quinine (tonic water). Among other effects, tobacco fermentation releases ammonia, which is an alkaline compound. Ultimately, extreme or unbalanced bitterness in tobacco will taint the other flavors and finish. 

Umami
Umami is often defined as savory (savoury), or sabroso in Spanish. For many people umami has a mouth watering effect and creates a tantalizing sensation all over the tongue: it has also been described as "deliciousness". The umami taste is common in fermented foods, aged cheeses, meat, ketchup/tomatoes, mushrooms, boullion/broth, soy sauce, MSG, and breast milk. Specifically, umami is the taste of L-glutamate, the dominant amino acid in living things: it is released through death, rotting, fermentation, and cooking.
 
Cigar makers use the word sabroso to describe the perfect balance of saltiness, bitterness, sourness, and sweetness in tobacco: that synergistic balance creates a sensation that transcends the potential of each individual taste, and creates something more extraordinary and complete: that is umami.

[Zonum]

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