Sense of Taste/Enhanced

Enhanced Taste
Noelle (Tower Prep)
Power/Ability to:	Possess enhanced taste.

The power to possess enhanced taste. Variation of Enhanced Senses.

Also Called

• Gustatory Enhancement
• Perfect Taste
• Supertaster

Capabilities

The user has accurate sense of taste, allowing them to sense both harmful and beneficial things, as all basic tastes are classified as either aversive or appetitive, depending upon the effect the things they sense have on our bodies. Sweetness helps to identify energy-rich foods, while bitterness serves as a warning sign of poisons.

The user might even be able to tell certain things about people if they taste something the person they're describing ate/drank previously, such as gender.

Associations

• Contaminant Immunity
• Disease Immunity
• Enhanced Smell
• Enhanced Senses
• Peak Human Sensory System
• Omni-Senses
• Taste Manipulation

Limitations

• The user might have sensitive taste buds, and thus can only eat/drink certain things.
• Something with too much of a certain flavor or taste might be dangerous for them.
• Users might not be able to shut off this power.
• Does not work on foods or drugs that do not carry a taste.

Known Users

• Manitoba Smith (Total Drama)
• Noelle (Tower Prep)
• Terezi (Homestuck)
• Rachel Pirzad (Alphas)
• Time Lords (Doctor Who)
• Daredevil (Marvel)
• Four Heavenly Kings (Toriko)
• Mai Natsume (BlazBlue Remix Heart); can taste thoughts and emotions of anything her tongue touches.
• Najika Kazami (Kitchen Princess)
• Nakiri Erina (Shokugeki no Soma)

Known Objects

• NEWS (Toriko)