| 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 |