tastes - objects of the tongue consciousness (rasa, ro)

• sweet, e.g., the taste of molasses (madhura, mngar ba)
• sour, e.g., taste of lemon (amla, skyur ba)
• salty, e.g., the taste of ocean salt (lavana, lan tshva ba)
• pungent, e.g., the taste of ginger (katuka, tsha ba)
• bitter, e.g., the taste of gentiana chiretta (tikta, kha ba)
• astringent, e.g., taste of the myrobalan fruit (kashaya, bska ba)