In the mouth, there is the enzyme called salivary amylase, which digests carbohydrates into sugars, such as glucose. When this enzyme mixes with the carbohydrate in phlegm, they are digested into sugars, hence tasting sweet in the mouth. In addition, there may already be sugars in the phlegm.
Phlegm tastes sour because it is a combination of basal nutrients and enzymes, many of which are acids, which coat the lower parts of the stomach and the upper small intenstine.
it taste sour a little sour
They taste SOUR
You taste lactic acid when the milk becomes sour. Acids, in general, sour.
Yes they taste SOUR
Acids have a sour taste.
The oranges this season taste sour.
because there is an ingredient that makes a acidy solution to make a sour taste in the mixture
Sour taste is a result of a chemical property. Certain chemicals - acids in particular - produce a sour taste when they come in contact with the appropriate taste buds. The chemical interaction of those chemicals with the taste buds yeilds a stimulus of those taste buds that the brain interprets as "sour".
Well, the whole thing is very complicated. The asorbic acid in sour, compliments the falic acid in other sour foods. It may seem more sour to you if you taste sour on sour, but it is just your taste buds reacting to two different chemicals. Both chemicals combined make it very easy to be tasted, and sometimes disliked. When you taste sour on salty it's harder to taste. One ingredient in salt, called cottonseed extract, mainly counteracts most asorbic and falic acids. So, in most salty foods it's harder to taste sour things.
No , vinger will, it has that werid sour funky taste to it and cranberry is not sour or has a werid taste to it or has no funky taste.
Sour candy does not taste like salt because the candy uses acids to make it sour, not salt.
Acids generally have a sour taste.