Food+Tasting+Vocabulary

FOOD TASTING VOCABULARY Sight: Sound: crisp break Touch: smooth and silky surface Smell: aromas Taste:
 * Tasting with the 5 senses**

cloying, creamy, crisp, crispy Earthy fragrant, fragile,
 * TASTING VOCABULARY **

Musty, muted, pungent

Ripe, rubbery, rough

Velvety, viscous

[] [] Earthiness, Body: describes texture: oily, buttery, thin, oily or gritty sensation, thin-bodied or anemic acidy for fear consumers will confuse a positive acidy brightness with an unpleasant sourness. creative euphemisms: bright, dry, sharp, brisk, vibrant,
 * Helpful Vocabulary: **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">yeasty, toasty, citrus, pear, apple, floral, apricot, aroma, dried strawberries, ripe raspberries, cherry, clean, crisp, sweet, dry, mouth watering, acidic, bitter, creamy, finish, elegant, assertive, full-bodied, light-bodied, robust, spicy, earthy, chocolate, black pepper, plum, berry, clove, cocoa, mint, licorice, wet rocks, dry soil, raisiny, rich, full, voluptuous, silky, lemon, orange, vanilla, buttery, pineapple, mango, grassy, nutty, green apple, tropical fruits, fruity, oak, peach, banana, sun, sandy, linger, dark, cedar, peppery, light hearted

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> aroma: subtle floral note, earthlike, or spicy notes, aroma should have a sort of echoing, resonant depth <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">taste: pungency or mustiness or earthiness, a softening sweetness, bitter, smooth, murky, soft, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">flavor: flat, lifeless, some are strong but monotone, richness, range, musical chords, complexity of sensation, complexity: feel hard and monotone; singular bellclap -- perfect, resonant, contained and complete, balance, []
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Acerbic **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> is anything sour, bitter or sharp - cutting, caustic, acid, mordant, barbed, prickly, biting, pointed. The opposite flavor would be mild, sweet, or honeyed.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Acid or Acidic **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> food can be sharp, tart, sour, bitter. Just the opposite of sweet, sugary, honey.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Acrid **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> taste can be considered pungent, bitter, choking, sharp, unpleasant, harsh - sharp, cutting, caustic, bitter, vitriolic, mordant, trenchant - sour, tart, sharp, biting, acerbic.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Aftertaste **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> is the trace, hint, smack, relish, savor food leaves behind.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Ambrosia **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> is the food of the gods, and epicurean delight, food fit for a king, delicacy, heavenly spread, gastronomical delight, some apply this term to the pièce de résistance in a meal.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Ambrosial **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> is, therefore, fit for the gods, delectable, mouthwatering, heavenly, savory, delicious, tasty, toothsome, divine. It is not distasteful or disgusting at all.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Appealing **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> food is attractive, tempting, interesting, pleasing, alluring, likable, engaging, charming, fascinating, glamorous. It is never repulsive, disgusting, or repellent.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Appetite **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> is the hunger, craving, desire, taste, ravenousness, sweet tooth, thirst, penchant, or passion don't find it revulsive, repulsive, or distasteful.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Appetizer **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> is the tidbit, snack, starter, hors d'oeuvre, finger food, dip, cold cuts, kickshaw, olives, anchovies - canapés, dim sum, aperitif, rollmops, antipasto, crudités we might have to open a meal.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Appetizing **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">: appealing, mouth-watering, delectable, savory, delicious, palatable, inviting, tantalizing, toothsome, luscious, tempting, tasty, enticing. Opposed nauseating, sickening, repulsive, revolting.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Astringent **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> is biting, harsh, sharp, cutting, acerbic, severe, rough, acrid, mordant, caustic. not mild, soft, gentle.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Balsamic **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> comes as soothing, balmy, mild, gentle, temperate, tranquil, calm. Never irritant or abrasive.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Biting **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> taste means caustic, piercing, penetrating, stinging, sharp, severe, mordant, stinging. It is not gentle, balmy, or soothing.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Bitter **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> is acrid, tart, sour, harsh, acidic, vinegary, acerbic. Opposite of sweet, honeyed, mild, gentle, warm.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Brackish **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> means salty, briny, saline.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Briny **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">, almost the same as the previous word, salty, brackish, saline.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Caustic **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> is something cutting, biting, acid, acidic, sharp, astringent, stinging, scathing, excoriating. To say the opposite you would call it mild, sweet, or smooth.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Choice **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> can mean selection or pick, but in relation with food -like a choice steak- means more often superior, excellent, select, top-notch, fine, first-rate, high-quality, cream of the crop, vintage, prime.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Delectable **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> food is delicious, tasty, mouth-watering, appetizing, scrumptious, luscious, enjoyable, palatable, delightful, toothsome, pleasing, satisfying. Nevertasteless, disgusting, or nauseating.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Delicious **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">meals are tasty, appetizing, scrumptious, yummy, luscious, delectable, mouth-watering, fit for a king, delightful, lovely, wonderful, pleasant, enjoyable, appealing, enchanting, charming.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Divine **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> cooking is fit for the gods, heavenly, godly, celestial, great, marvelous, delightful, lovely, blissful.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Dry **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> food can be desiccated and withered like an old prune. Sometimes dry food keeps better, as beans and pulses; then being dry is a desirable trait. But most times dry food is juiceless and tasteless, lacking moisture -it will need a sauce. Food with a sharp, biting taste, or with a high proportion of strong alcohol is also dry. Food eaten without any spread, sauce or garnish would be eaten dry. Overcooked meat gets dry, having lost all juices.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Dulcet **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> is sweet, honeyed, pleasant, in a gentle way, something in harmony with your taste; never harsh.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Dulcified **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> is what has been made sweeter, or softer, in taste, edulcorated, sweetened.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Flavored **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> equals seasoned; food that has been given flavor, by normal seasoning or by artificial flavoring. Which flavor? Any, but by being flavored, it is sure to give some kind of taste experience.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Flavorful **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">, obviously full of flavor, or you could say, instead, flavorsome, tasty, tangy, appetizing, palatable, savory or sweet -for a particular flavor- and, if you want to try less known words, sapid or saporous. It wouldn’t be flavorless, tasteless, bland, flat, or insipid.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Flavoring **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> or seasoning, anything added to food for the flavor it imparts or the act of adding flavor to food. Think of herbs, spices, condiments, seasonings, or some food additives as different flavorings.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Flavorsome **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> indicates good tasting, full of flavor, specifically pleasant flavor; implying delicious, tasty, appetizing, scrumptious, yummy, juicy, succulent, heavenly, inviting, luscious, mouthwatering, palatable, saporous, savory; may be divine, toothsome, and tempting. Consider flavorsome just the opposite of distasteful, nauseating, repulsive, sickening, unappetizing, unsavory.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Fruity **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> food will be having a taste, smell or flavor of fruit; anything tasting or smelling richly of or as of fruit. A wine full of fruity flavors will probably be considered concentrated, full-bodied, full-flavored, heady, heavy, lusty, mellow, potent, redolent, rich, strong, well-matured.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Full-bodied **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> -usually applied to wine- means robust, or rich and intense flavor and aroma; it would be a wine that feels heavy in the mouth.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Gamy **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> refers to the flavor or strong odor of game, especially game that is starting to spoil. It would be malodorous and rancid, certainly not fresh.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Gustatory **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">, relating to the sense of taste, to the sensation in the taste buds.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Harsh **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">, unpleasant to the taste, abrasive, coarse, acerbic, astringent, biting, bitter, caustic, cutting, dry, mordant, nasty, sharp, stinging, vitriolic. Definitely not smooth.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Heavenly **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">, considered divine, wonderful, blissful, delightful, lovely, fantastic, glorious, sublime;
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Honey, honeyed **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> sweet, sugar, sweetened, sugarcoated, syrupy, candied. Never harsh, acerbic or salty
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Hot **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> as in burning, scorching, boiling, blistering, sizzling, searing, blazing, torrid; or **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">hot ** as in spicy, peppery, piquant, pungent, so strong flavored that makes one feel burning, fiery, intense, vehement, ardent, fervent flavors – definitely not cold, mild, soft or tasteless.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Juicy **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> food is succulent, luscious, thirst quenching, moist, ripe, usually flavorful
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Luscious **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> food and we are talking juicy, moist food; delicious and delectable food; scrumptious or succulent food; super tasty, toothsome, more than palatable, surely mouthwatering food. **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Lush ** would be a rich, lavish, opulent meal; sumptuous, luxurious, certainly abundant. not sparse scanty
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Mellow **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> flavor is smooth, rich, full, soft, or melodious; usually a pleasant, fully developed flavor reached after an adequate aging period. In this sense of matured, softened, developed flavor, is often used when writing about cheese or wine. But it could be used perfectly for preserved or canned food, or to describe a particularly rich dish. **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Mellow ** is opposite to harsh.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Mouthwatering **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> is that savory, flavorful, succulent, gorgeous,
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Nectarous **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> stands for ambrosial, delicious or sweet; something that reminds you of nectar, the drink of the gods –.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Palatable **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> indicates edible, pleasant, tasty, just OK, appetizing, toothsome
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">peppery **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> and piquant comes to the mind. think of gingery, spicy, hot, fiery, sharp, stinging, pungent or somehow lively and strong. Tasting like pepper, no one would think it mild.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Pickled **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> would account for that briny flavor that food preserved in a pickling liquid gets. Food is pickled, marinated or cured –pickling would prevent from spoiling- in some liquid with plenty of salt, vinegar, or similar, and spices.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Piquant **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> and salty, savory, spicy, tasty or zesty are very similar words. Also to be considered having a pleasant pungent taste, hot, tangy, agreeably biting or sharp; never bland or insipid.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Pungent **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> can be seen as strong, spicy, hot, heady, overpowering, sharp, biting, a penetrating taste or smell; or you could take it by the forceful, biting, cutting, caustic, acerbic side. Forget about bland or mild.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Rancid **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> food is bad, stale, rotten, completely off; the opposite of fresh food.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Rank **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> means pungent but in the fetid, smelly, foul, stale, rancid, definitely bad way; offensive to the smell or taste and not fresh.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Rich **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> food is full, heavy, dripping, full-bodied, robust; a rich table is plentiful, abundant, loaded, ample, copious, stuffed.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Saccharine **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> say sugary, syrupy, maybe treacly; certainly it’s overly sweet opposite to bitter.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Saline **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> or **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">salty ** could almost be used without distinction or they could be substituted by briny or brackish because both contain **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">salt **. Salty food is sure to be savory. Remember, salty is one of the basic tastes.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Sapid **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">, **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">saporific **, or **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">saporous ** are full of flavor; that is to say flavorful, flavorsome, flavorful, flavorous…
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Savory **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> has flavor. salty, spicy, pungent, sweet or plainly aromatic and flavorful, but taste pleasant
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Scrumptious **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> is shouting “eat me!” It is delicious, delectable, mouthwatering, tasty, delightful, gorgeous, lip smacking, yummy, wonderful in taste and aroma; never unappetizing, unappealing, or tasteless. Think of a scrumptious pie is very appetizing, pleasing to your taste; your sense of taste.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Sec **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> is another way to say medium dry, un-sweet. This word is borrowed from wine world.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Sharp **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> incisive, harsh, sour, tangy, acid, pungent, tart, bitter; could be acerbic or astringent, but not bland.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Sour **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> is one of the basic tastes. It is acid, lemon-like or vinegary, tart, bitter, acerbic. Sour food has a sharp biting taste and, certainly, is not sweet.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Spicy **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> food has the piquant, hot, fiery, burning taste of spices. We are talking of highly spiced, piquant, zesty food, certainly savory. It can be also described after the predominant spice, like peppery or gingery food. This is the complete opposite of mild food.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Strong **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> tasting food is highly flavored i.e. highly seasoned; concentrated flavor, intense, pungent, and as such piquant, hot, spicy and sharp, with an intense aroma. The flavor is never weak or faint. A **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">strong ** wine is high in alcoholic content.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Succulent **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> food is juicy, moist, tender, lush, luscious food; usually sweet tasting and the opposite to dry, flavorless food.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Sugary **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> or **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">sweet ** means syrupy, candied, sugar coated, honeyed, sweetened, sugared, maybe saccharine; opposite to bitter, unsweetened or sugarless.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Sweet-and-sour **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">, a Chinese specialty and also said of a dish that has a pleasant taste and a bitter or sharp touch in contrast.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Sweetened **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> or **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">syrupy ** are other ways to say sweet, sugared, candied, honeyed, sugar coated
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Tang **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">applied to food refers to a tart spiciness. Describe it as that taste experience which leaves the tongue tingling after taking food to the mouth. Flavor, relish, savor, smack, zest, tanginess, piquancy, nip, all those words can be written in place of tang. Bland or dull food is just the opposite.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Tart **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> sharp, sharp-tasting that is, bitter, acid or acidic, harsh, sour taste, just like a lemon. Sweet, honeyed and the like words are the opposite.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Tasteful **or full of flavor, flavorful, food; it could mean refined, sophisticated, stylish or classy when it refers to the layout of a dish –the realm of a food stylist; the opposite? The answer is tasteless.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Tasteless **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> is the opposite of tasteful or tasty. We are talking bland, flavorless, flat, insipid, weak, dull, savorless, plain, unseasoned, unsavory, unflavored, probably unappetizing food.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Tasting **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">, sensing and distinguishing food by means of your taste buds. A tasting will usually mean a small sample of wine or food. To have a tasting means taking a small amount of food or wine to test its quality. But, sometimes, the only way to describe food is to say food was good tasting, or it tasted foul.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Tasty **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> and by association… yummy! It is delicious, flavorsome, full of flavor, appetizing, scrumptious, probably fresh and juicy, making a succulent meal, a kid would say finger licking good. Apply to food and dishes full of bite, piquancy, zing, zest and relish. It will never be dull or tasteless, disgusting, gross or nauseating.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Toothsome **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">, strictly used, refers to edible and pleasant food, or could be write tasty, appetizing or delicious instead, something really pleasant to the sense of taste. often meaning healthy food, good tasting food that has something more than good taste going for it. The opposite inedible, tasteless, disgusting or foul
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Treacly **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> is sweet but overly so, syrupy and saccharine to the point of being disgusting.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Unsweetened **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> or no added sugar, no added sweet flavor; probably sugarless, plain or bitter in taste, but not always. Opposites are sweet, saccharine, or syrupy.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">vinegary **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> flavor would taste like vinegar. It would be acetous, sour, acid, acidic, tart, astringent, pungent, harsh, acrid; never sweet.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Yummy **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> food is scrumptious, delicious, delectable, luscious, great tasting, much more than tasty, really appetizing, lip-smacking; never unpalatable, plain tasting, distasteful or disgusting.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Zesty **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> food has a vivid, spicy, piquant, utterly savory flavor; feels invigorating, stimulating, fresh and reviving. Food with a zesty flavor never soothing or dull; this is exactly the opposite.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Soft, runny, hard, crumbly, dry, moist, smooth, rough, crusty, moldy, white, yellow, ivory, orange
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">cheese **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Appearance: **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">nuances in color, ranging from pale white to ivory, to buttery, golden or blue-streaked.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">moisture **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">: from soft and spoonable to firm or crumbly


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Aroma: **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">mild, delicate, milky, fresh, creamy, salty, sweet, strong, pungent, earthy, moldy


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">texture **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">: soft, firm, hard, moist, runny, crumbly, granular, creamy, buttery, rubbery, waxy, oily, chalky, spreadable

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">taste **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> sweet, mild, milky, buttery, delicate, salty, sharp, acidic, tart, tangy, lemony, bitter, nutty, piquant, smoky, yeasty

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">with permission © Nancy Ash, [|Strictly Olive Oil]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">How To Taste Olive Oil – The 4 S’s* **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">The 4 S’s **
 * 1) **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">SWIRL – **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> Just like wine, swirl the oil to release its esters - the molecules that contain aromas.
 * 2) **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">SNIFF – **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> Uncover the glass and quickly smell the oil. Aroma is the key to the fruitiness
 * 3) **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">SLURP – **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Take a sip of the oil while also "sipping" a bit of air. The slurping action emulsifies the oil with oxygen and spreads it throughout your mouth. Notice the oil's retro-nasal aromas and the different sensations throughout your mouth.
 * 4) **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">SWALLOW – **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> Don't worry, it's just a small amount of oil! Notice if there is a peppery or stinging sensation in your throat, and how long the sensation lingers.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> **International Olive Oil Council - Sensory Assessment Vocabulary Tasting Terms** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> **Negative Attributes or Defects in EVOO**: []
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Positive Attributes or Defects in EVOO **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Fruity - characteristic of good (unspoiled) fresh olive fruit, either ripe or unripe.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Bitter –. Note that bitterness is an important part of an oil’s balance of flavors.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Pungent – Peppery sensation perceived at back of the throat that is indicative of the oil’s freshness. Also a characteristic of pressing unripe olives.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Fusty - from olives that were stored in piles prior to pressing, which causes an advanced stage of anaerobic (without oxygen) fermentation.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Musty - Moldy flavor in oils obtained when a large quantity of the olive fruit has developed fungi and yeast as a result of its being stored in humid conditions
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Winey-Vinegary - Flavor that is reminiscent of wine or vinegar.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Muddy Sediment -.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Metallic - Flavor that is reminiscent of metals..
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Rancid - Flavor in oils which have undergone oxidation.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Other Defects, Which Are Less Common: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Heated or burnt –oil is exposed to excessive and/or prolonged heat during processing.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Hay-wood – Flavor of oil produced from olives that have dried out.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Greasy – Flavor reminiscent of diesel oil, mineral oil, or mechanical grease.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Vegetable water –prolonged contact with the vegetable water that is a by-product of pressing olives.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Brine –Obtained from olives that were brined (such as table olives) before pressing.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Esparto –from using new mats made from esparto (a type of grass) when pressing olives.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Earthy –from olives with dirt or mud on them that have not been washed before pressing.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Grubby –from olives that have been attacked by the olive fly,
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Frozen – Flavor obtained from olives that experienced heavy frost or prolonged cold


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">chocolate **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Flavors **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">: hints of smoke, coffee, cherry, vanilla, nuts or citrus in chocolate.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Bloom **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">: Dullness, streaks, graying, or whitish discoloration on the surface of chocolate caused by poor tempering, temperature fluctuations and/or moisture in storage. Bloom is unattractive but not harmful

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Snap **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">: The sound and the feel of chocolate as it breaks or is bitten. A sharp, crisp snap indicates fine particle size, high quality cocoa butter, and good tempering. Dark chocolate generally has more “snap” than softer milk chocolate.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">bubbles or imperfections on the surface or is it smooth and even? <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">deep mahogany, medium coffee brown or a light cinnamon color
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">look: **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">shiny with a nice gloss ; dull with some sugar-bloom


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">aroma: **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> vanilla or floral or maybe coffee?

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">an upfront flavor that changes into another and maybe finishes with yet another flavor. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">flavor linger on your tongue or does it fade away quickly?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Taste **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">: Some chocolates have a very consistent flavor from bite to swallow,

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Does it have a waxy or greasy feeling in your mouth or does it melt cleanly?
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 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">BEER **
 * <span style="color: #000031; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">For many ales **<span style="color: #000031; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">: Burnt, licorice, smoky, chocolately, hoppy, malty, spicy, sweet, toffeeish, butterscotch, vanilla, nutty, caramel, roasty
 * <span style="color: #000031; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">For many lagers: **<span style="color: #000031; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Floral, grassy, dull, bland, bitter, honey, syrupy, cloying, sugar, highly carbonated, banana, sweet corn, skunky (such as the aged beer remainders from the back of your fridge.)

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 * __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Sight __**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Cloudy, hazy – while most beers are relatively clear, some have an opaque appearance, usually due to the presence of yeast (Hefeweizens)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Head, or collar – the amount of foam that rests at the top of the beer when poured. Often measured in fingers, as in, two fingers’ worth of foam
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Lacing – describes the residual, web-like foam that clings to the sides of the glass after the beer has settled or been drunk. More lacing indicates a higher quality beer, less lacing indicates a lower quality beer or a dirty glass (Belgian styles)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Smell/Taste **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Malty – used to describe a rich, dark sweetness like that associated with caramel, coffee, or chocolate (many Belgian high gravity beers like St. Bernardus Dubbel)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Floral – has an aroma reminiscent of a light perfume (Pilsner)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Fruity – as the name suggests, beers with this characteristic smell like fruit. The fruit could be citrus (Blue Moon), banana (Koningshoeven La Trappe Quadruppel), stone fruit (Magic Hat #9), or even berry (Lindeman’s Framboise Lambic)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Hoppy – a brash, bright, sharp taste that’s somewhere in the realm between bitter and tart
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Nutty – flavors of roasted nuts like hazelnut or walnut (Samuel Smith’s Nut Brown Ale)
 * __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Mouthfeel __**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Astringent – leaves a dry, puckery feeling on the tongue, similar to the tannin feel of red wines; usually an undesirable characteristic
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Creamy – the opposite of astringent, feels moist and full on the tongue, similar to how a high quality root beer or crème soda feels (Porter)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Watery, or thin – as the term implies, it has the consistency of water, and leaves a clean feeling on the palate, which may or may not be desirable (Budweiser)
 * __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Sound __**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Chshhh – the sound made when you open a nice cold bottle of beer
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Glug, glug, glug – the sound of said beer coursing happily down your throat
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Ahhhh – the unmistakable sound of satisfaction made when the first sip of your favorite brew hits your belly. Usually more pronounced on Fridays after 5pm