For years people have thought the tongue could only taste sweet, sour, bitter and saltyness, and some people even believe that you cannot taste anything and that your entire sense of taste is based on your sense of smell, recently they added the 5th thing which is savouriness, of course his is still not entirely categorising senses known to be tasteable on the tongue, much like the human body having more than the 5 senses people believe, I think people should be taught the correct things in school so everyone knows, as you can also taste the spicyness of food, the metallicness, the fattyness, dryness (tannin), coolness (like menthol), and I am sure there are more, as for senses other than touch, sight, smell, hearing and taste there are things like pain and heat to name some basic senses, you dont need to know them all, just know that they exist because it seems we’re in the dark ages of the elements of earth fire wind and water in comparison, because as we all know now theres a whole periodic table of elements beyond the basic four that use to be believed in.
