Is salty actually ranked last among sweet, sour, bitter, spicy, and salty?
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Is salty actually ranked last among sweet, sour, bitter, spicy, and salty? Is it sorted by the pinyin of the first letter? :lol
It should be the sequence in which the tongue detects different flavors
The most familiar, the best ones are those we cannot do without yet also the easiest to overlook
Sour, sweet, bitter, spicy, and salty are all tastes of food. As everything comes back to life in the spring and summer, the fruits are not yet ripe, so they are naturally sour. When the fruits ripen in late summer and early autumn, they become sweet. Things like bitter gourd need to be harvested in mid-autumn, and chili peppers develop their strong spicy flavor only after autumn. As for saltiness, that appears even later on