This is interesting, because it’s almost crazy to me that you’d call a strawberry sour—almost as crazy as calling it bitter! Strawberries are really really sweet in my experience. (Unless it was a very unripe one, I suppose?) Although, I’m not hugely keen on them because of texture issues, so possibly I just haven’t picked up on sourness...? Sometimes I think I don’t taste foods as well when I’m nervous about potential texture variations (for some reason I can get a strong “yuck” reaction from this).
It’s almost crazy to me that you wouldn’t call strawberries sour. Strawberries taste quite sour to me, and quite sweet as well. I’ve always thought of sourness as relating to acidity (strawberries and grapefruits actually have pretty similar pH’s). I perceive bitterness to be entirely different (strawberries are not bitter, grapefruits are slightly to moderately bitter, depending on the grapefruit, kale is very bitter to me but not at all sour).
There are varieties of strawberries that are not sour at all, so I suppose it’s possible that you simply have limited experience with strawberries. (Well, you probably must, since you don’t like them, but maybe that’s the reason you don’t think they’re sour, as opposed to some fundamental difference in how you taste things.)
I actually don’t like the taste of purely-sweet strawberries; the slightly-sour ones are better. A very unripe strawberry would taste very sour, but not at all sweet, and its flesh would also be very hard.
Hm, that is interesting. I’ve always thought that berries were known to be a bit sour, but I also suspect that you’re right in saying that they’re mostly sweet. To me it seems like a more even balance. It wasn’t unripe as far as I could tell, and I got it at the supermarket 3 days ago.
This is interesting, because it’s almost crazy to me that you’d call a strawberry sour—almost as crazy as calling it bitter! Strawberries are really really sweet in my experience. (Unless it was a very unripe one, I suppose?) Although, I’m not hugely keen on them because of texture issues, so possibly I just haven’t picked up on sourness...? Sometimes I think I don’t taste foods as well when I’m nervous about potential texture variations (for some reason I can get a strong “yuck” reaction from this).
It’s almost crazy to me that you wouldn’t call strawberries sour. Strawberries taste quite sour to me, and quite sweet as well. I’ve always thought of sourness as relating to acidity (strawberries and grapefruits actually have pretty similar pH’s). I perceive bitterness to be entirely different (strawberries are not bitter, grapefruits are slightly to moderately bitter, depending on the grapefruit, kale is very bitter to me but not at all sour).
Interesting. I get grapefruit (which I like better than strawberries) to be quite sour, but not bitter at all.
There are varieties of strawberries that are not sour at all, so I suppose it’s possible that you simply have limited experience with strawberries. (Well, you probably must, since you don’t like them, but maybe that’s the reason you don’t think they’re sour, as opposed to some fundamental difference in how you taste things.)
I actually don’t like the taste of purely-sweet strawberries; the slightly-sour ones are better. A very unripe strawberry would taste very sour, but not at all sweet, and its flesh would also be very hard.
Hm, that is interesting. I’ve always thought that berries were known to be a bit sour, but I also suspect that you’re right in saying that they’re mostly sweet. To me it seems like a more even balance. It wasn’t unripe as far as I could tell, and I got it at the supermarket 3 days ago.