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sweet taste is elicited by many organic substances including sugar,saccharin, alcohols some amino acids, and some lead salts.
#2. sour taste is produced by acids, specifically their hydrogen ions in solution.
#3. Salty taste is produced by metal ions (inorganic salts); table salt taste the "saltiest".
#4. Bitter taste is elicited by alkaloids (such as quinine, nicotine,caffeine, morphine, and strychnine) as well as a number of non alkaloid substances such as aspirin.
#5. Umami (U-mam'e "delicious"),a subtle taste discovered by Japanese is elicited by amino acid glutamate aspartate which appear to be responsible for the"beef taste" of steak the characterisic tang of aging cheese, and the flavor of the food additive monosodium glutamate.
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