Does water have a taste?
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But even if you can "taste" the water, it is not technically the water has no taste. The minerals within the water may give it a taste, but by definition no water has taste.
I'll agree with the OP, Ice Mountain is by far the best bottled water I've ever had. I also agree that since I can tell the difference between bottled waters, most of them have to have a taste
I always kind of liked Indianola water. You haven't had bad water until you've had Iowa City water. I don't even like using the tap water to cook with.
If you drink a Dasani and a Aquafina (or any other bottled water for that matter) you can "taste" the difference.
I think Ames won a competition a few years back for having the best tap water in the United States or something like that. Seems odd to win a taste test for something that has no taste at all.
Its water quality I think they won. Water shouldnt have a particular taste. If you go up in the mountains and drink from a fresh stream, I wonder what it tastes like?
Are you sure? The city I live in just won a competition for best tasting water in Kansas and now will go on to a national taste competition in DC.
Olathe Water Rated Best Tasting - Kansas City News Story - KMBC Kansas City
Sure, pure water shouldn't taste, but nobody drinks pure water on a daily basis so for all practical purposes, the water we interact with on a daily basis has taste.
because there are random ions inside water that makes the taste.
pure water is hard to come by, but regardless it still has no taste.
now if he asked if tap water/bottle water etc has a taste, then yeah, but pure water doesn't
I think Ames won a competition a few years back for having the best tap water in the United States or something like that. Seems odd to win a taste test for something that has no taste at all.
Just because water does not have a taste in its pure form doesn't mean individual city's water doesn't vary in taste. I would imagine the competition has to do with the purity of the water and the additives the city puts in the water. I suppose its no different than a beer brewing competition, it starts as water but the taste varies depending on the ingredients you add...some good, some not as good.
Water definitely has a taste which is quantifiable.
Would you also argue that black is not a color, or that zero is not a number? If pure water does not stimulate any taste receptors as you claim, it's taste would be defined as null, or zero.
Would you also argue that black is not a color, or that zero is not a number? If pure water does not stimulate any taste receptors as you claim, it's taste would be defined as null, or zero.
umm white is the absence of color i believe, and numbers is a man made thing.
physical properties of h2o is its tasteless and odorless
Ummmm...if I take white light and shine it on a prism, what happens?
Anyway that's not my point.
I agree numbers are a man made thing. They were invented to give us the ability to quantify the world around us, from simple count and measurement all the way to complex models that explain our natural world.
Let's say you started a number line in order to classify all possible tastes, where would you start? The line of possible tastes would start at and include zero and extend to infinity. Zero is a taste - the tasteless taste, but it is still included in the realm of possible tastes.
