Reasons for Adding Different Tastes: An Example of Sprinkling Salt on Watermelon and Its Relation to Subjective Taste Perception, Taste Preference, and Autistic Traits

Figure 2

A violin plot of subjective feelings of speed, lasting, detection, and identification for the five basic tastes. Each dot represents the mean rating in each condition for an individual participant. Note that N = 119, the lines represent the mean ratings, and error bars represent the standard error on the mean; the salty, sour, sweet, bitter, and umami taste terms are represented by the colors blue, yellow, red, green, and brown, respectively.