@hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world
Post #2520916
2026-01-09 23:31 UTC
I could see that water being "neutral" on taste for most people is probably evolutionary. But I'm just speculating.
Replies (3)
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@LodeMike@lemmy.today 2026-01-09 23:37
Water is neutral in taste the same way that CO is scentless - it is literally too small for the things to pick it up.
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@rockerface@lemmy.cafe 2026-01-10 00:39
In the same way that the sunlight's spectrum (or at least the part of it that reaches the Earth's surface) has the most energy of green wavelengths, which are conveniently in the middle of the light spectrum visible by humans.
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@FishFace@piefed.social 2026-01-10 15:00
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.