Test your flavour-perception know-how

Call yourself a foodie? Find out how much you really know about what you taste

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On Feb 8, 2016
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Eating strawberry mousse off a white plate rather than a black one makes the food taste:

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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?

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What happens to the taste of wine after you eat cheese?

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Drinking from a blue glass rather than a yellow glass makes the drink taste:

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Sounds can affect how food tastes. If you listen to loud crunching noises when you eat crisps it makes them taste:

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Which body part does not contain taste receptors?

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A bitter, herb-like smell and taste in wine, sometimes described as being like green peppers, can be caused by:

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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?

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