>>12753425This, umami and savory are two distinctly different qualia and it sucks that so many people have tried to tie them together. like OPs image lol, tomatoes really do not have a strong umami flavor much at all. If you ever drink dark beers, you know that taste and how it crops up in onions sauce, vegemite, and even burnt toast.
But if you eat a nice beef stew or spaghetti or any of that other shit that would described as savory, that umami flavor really isn't a key component if even present at all.
>>12752151The maps are probably bullshit but only because everyone has different biology. For me I can barely taste salt at all on the back/midsection of my tongue, but its super sensitive on the tip/edges. That said, barely tasteing it on the back of my tongue is still tasting it. Clearly our tongue has a differing distribution of different types of taste buds across its surface. Certain sections of your tongue may have dense groups of specific taste buds. But they aren't 100% confined to specific areas.
Also, unpopular opinion, but there are way more than 5 tastes/elemental flavors. Salty, sour, bitter, sweet are the most obvious. And cultured people are very familiar with umami. But as someone whos ate practically all types of food in this world, there are some flavors that I just can't break down. Like fucking clove, or turmeric. The elemental tastes are most likely a meme and there may be an infinite amount of possible tastes and flavors that can be experienced. After all taste is just chemicals reacting with the taste bud cells on our tongues, at the molecular level...
