Subject area	Biology
More specific subject area	Ethnopharmacology
Type of data	Table, text file, figure, Excel database
How data was acquired	Literature search of published data
Data format	Coded, filtered, analyzed
Experimental factors	Data on the plant derived tastants found in Indian medicinal plants
Experimental features	Publications with data searched using keywords in databases. Keywords: English and Latin names of medicinal plants, “composition”, “phytochemical”, “phytocompound” “chemical compounds”, “ingredients” name of phytochemicals, “taste”,” bitter/bitterness/tikta”,” sweet/sweetness/madhura”,” sour/sourness/amla”, “astringent/astringency/kashaya”,” pungent/pungency/katu”, “salty/saltyness/lavana”,” sensory”,” organoleptic”, “tastant”, name of taste receptors (e.g. TAS2R) or orosensation transducers (e.g. TRP- transient receptor potential channels)
Data source location	Elsevier ScienceDirect, PubMed, Google Academic, Google Books, BitterDB, SweetenersDB, SuperSweet, HMDB, FoodDB
Data accessibility	Data is within this article