Does water have a taste?

Moment of Um

American Public Media

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

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🗓️ 25 February 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Have you ever been really thirsty on a hot day? Nothing beats that thirst better than a cold glass of good old H2O. We can’t live without it! Water quenches our thirst, but does it tickle our taste buds? Does water from different places taste different? We asked Martin Riese to help us find the answer.

Are you thirsting for knowledge? Send your questions to us at BrainsOn.org/contact, and we’ll pour you a nice tall glass of facts.

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0:00.0	From the brains behind brains on, this is the moment of um.
0:06.1	Um, um, um, um, um, um, moment of um comes to you from APM studios. I'm Anna Goldfield.
0:13.7	Um.
0:15.2	I'm headed to meet my pal Sandin at the coolest new shop in town, the water emporium.
0:21.5	Hey, Sandin.
0:22.8	Wow, this place looks fancy.
0:25.4	I know.
0:26.2	I am so excited to try all the different flavors of water.
0:29.4	I hear they've got one that comes all the way from the Himalayas.
0:32.2	Oh, and there's one from a Scottish lake.
0:34.6	Maybe it'll have hint of Loch Ness Monster.
0:37.3	Wait, I thought this place had
0:38.9	flavored water, like lemon basil or cucumber kiwi. It's just water? Water doesn't taste like anything.
0:47.5	Oh, Anna, you sweet summer child. Please enlighten me and our listeners, because we've definitely
0:53.0	gotten questions about the taste of water
0:54.9	like this one
0:55.8	my question is
0:58.6	does water have a taste
1:00.6	yes water has taste because you can taste
1:03.9	actually the different mineral compositions out of the water
1:06.4	my name is Martin Reeson and I'm the leading authority of buttered water.
1:13.6	My title is Water Somerge.
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