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Taste Checkboxes

Mild

not with distinctly marked taste, matches also with, 'absent', 'none', 'not distinctive', 'faint', and 'neutral'

Acid

with acid or acidulous taste

Alkaline

with alkaline or chlorine-like taste

Almond

with taste of almonds or marzipan, matches also with 'marzipan'

Anise

with taste of anise or licorice, will match with either

Astringent

with a biting taste that causes the mouth to pucker

Bitter

with bitter taste like chloroquine tablets

Cucumbers

with taste like cucumber

Fishy

with taste like fish, will match with 'fish' or 'fishy'

Farinaceous

with taste of freshly ground meal from whole grain, especially wheat, will match with 'farinaceous', 'mealy', or 'flour'

Funguslike

with 'mushroomy' or 'fungoid' taste

Garlic

with taste of cooked garlic

Grassy

will match with 'grassy' in taste description

Metallic

with taste or aftertaste like metal, will match with 'metal' or 'metallic'

Nutty

with taste of nuts

Oily

with taste of cooking oil

Peppery

peppery, hot, acrid, will match with any of these

Pleasant

will match with 'pleasant' in taste description

Radishes

with taste of radish, matches also with 'raphanoid'

Rancid

with taste of stale fat or stale cooking oil, will match with 'rancid'

Soapy

with taste of hand soap, will match with 'soap' or soapy'

Sour

with sour taste (like lemon)

Strong

will match with 'strong', 'sharp', 'pungent', and 'nauseating'

Sweet

will match with 'sweet' and 'sugar'

Unpleasant

will match with 'unpleasant', 'disagreeable', 'foul', and 'nauseating' in taste description

Unusual

with any unusual taste not mentioned above, such as beanlike, cedar, celery, curry, earthy, fruity, grainlike, green corn, green pepper, menthol, morel, onion, potato, putrid water, smoky, spermatic, of washrooms, watermelon, watery, woody