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Mealy - I didn't know there was a word for that taste - http://www.thekitchn.com/food-science-what-makes-apples-95708 http://www.thekitchn.com/food-science-what

• wjnc 12y ago
  Perhaps the etymology of the word will help with the connection to the taste. In Dutch (another Germanic language) mealy = 'melig', which is close to 'meel' (: flour). There you have the connection to the sawdust-taste. Sawdust and flour, i think, taste pretty much the same.
  • DanielStraight 12y ago
    Or for that matter, the English word cornmeal.
  • Tomte 12y ago
    In German it's "mehlig", and it's exactly the adjective to "Mehl" (flour). But I wouldn't call it a taste, it's texture: "how it feels in the mouth". Although this state goes hand in hand with a stale taste.
• lepton 12y ago
  It's more a texture than a taste.