BOSTON - There may be yet another basic type of taste. We generally know about the five - sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and umami - but a team of researchers at University of Southern California ...

image: The popular Scandinavian candy salty licorice contains the alkaline salt ammonium chloride, giving the candy a unique flavor. view more Credit: Maxine Eschger.

Other chloride salts are potassium chloride, calcium chloride and ammonium chloride. It only takes one teaspoon of salt to permanently pollute five gallons of water. At the same time that the human ...

Scientists have just caught up with something that Scandinavians have suspected strongly for over a century: Ammonium chloride (NH 4 Cl) may be a basic taste, joining sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and ...

In addition to sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and umami, a new California study suggests the tongue might also detect ammonium chloride as a basic sixth taste. The popular Scandinavian candy, salty ...

Ammonium chloride: A surprising sixth basic taste may join salty, sweet, sour, bitter and umami ... Salmiak, a Scandinavian salt licorice, is definitely an acquired taste.

And then there were 6 -- kinds of taste, that is In addition to sweet, salty, sour, bitter and umami, a new study suggests the tongue might also detect ammonium chloride as a basic taste ...