Test your flavour-perception know-how
Test your flavour-perception know-how
Call yourself a foodie? Find out how much you really know about what you taste
Call yourself a foodie? Find out how much you really know about what you taste

Eating strawberry mousse off a white plate rather than a black one makes the food taste:
In one experiment people were fed pieces of a crusty old chocolate brownie then asked how much they would be prepared to pay for it. People served the brownie on a paper plate with a cheap napkin said that they would pay on average 57 cents. How much would people pay to eat the same shrivelled piece of cake dusted with icing sugar on a glass plate?
What happens to the taste of wine after you eat cheese?
Drinking from a blue glass rather than a yellow glass makes the drink taste:
Sounds can affect how food tastes. If you listen to loud crunching noises when you eat crisps it makes them taste:
Which body part does not contain taste receptors?
A bitter, herb-like smell and taste in wine, sometimes described as being like green peppers, can be caused by:
Body fluids, in the absence of gravity, travel up instead of down. This can cause swelling which blocks the sinuses, and like a bad head cold, limits astronauts' sense of smell and therefore taste. What is the effect called?