Are you able to distinguish between the different flavours when trying out a new dish? Before getting into the details of the importance of your palate, it is important to understand the six different tastes - salty, sweet, sour, spicy, umami and bitter. There are a lot of people who eat to live and the rest live to eat. The first category will not put in many efforts into trying to understand the taste of what they put in their mouth while the latter enjoys every bite of the food they eat. To get a better taste of the flavours of a dish, you need to train your palate.