While most people can taste different flavors like sweet, sour, spicy, salty there are people who have a highly evolved sense of taste, and are able to differentiate minute differences in additives in any food.

Wine coinsurers and cheese experts consider themselves people with a highly sensitive tasting ability. People from different parts of the world have different tolerances to the type of food they eat. Some people like their food spicy while others prefer their food moderated to enable them to enjoy the subtle differences within their range of how much spice their tongues can handle.  Then of course there are people with different diets, the vegetarians have no idea what the world is like living as a non-vegetarian person. And there are people on this planet who wonder how much people are missing out in life not having tasted their beloved delicacy of roasted spiders. The list goes on.

Some people live to eat, while others eat to live. Do people experience their world differently based on their ability to taste?

What about the other substances around us that we cannot possibly eat, like crude oil, barks of trees, chemicals etc, are we missing out on the full experience of life if we have not tasted everything?

Obviously, our tongue has its limits of experience while the world exists with thousands of tastes beyond our human experience, human tolerance and ability to detect with our small range of tongue taste buds.

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