do bases taste bitter
many medicines because they are bases taste bitter this is the reason cough syrups are advertised as having a great grape taste the taste is added in order to cover the bitterness of the active ingredient in cough syrup acid property 2 acids make a blue vegetable dye called litmus turn red base property 2 bases are substances which will restore the original blue color of litmus after having been reddened by an acid acid property 3 acids destroy the chemical properties of bases