DESCRIBING FOOD.

HOW DOES IT TASTE?

BITTER BLAND HOT SALTY

Having a sharp, "Tasteless” Plenty of chilli, Food tasting of,

pungent taste unseasoned or usually, or occasionally containing, or
SPICY
or smell; not otherwise only pepper. preserved with
SWEET sweet. uninteresting. salt. Full of flavours
such as
Taste
RICH MILD cinnamon,
characteristic of SHARP
SOUR cloves, nutmeg,
sugar or honey; Food of strong Food easy to Sour, tangy, ginger
not salty or Having an acid flavour, usually digest acid
bitter. taste like lemon or sweet, but not
vinegar. always.

HOW IS ITS TEXTURE?

STODGY CREAMY MOIST

RIPE Very heavy Food a little wet
CRISPY Dense foods GREASY / OILY
Food that is that take a
Firm, dry, and
ready to eat. while to Food that has
brittle, especially in CRUNCHY digest CHEWY been fried in oil
a way considered
pleasing Food that Food that you
CLAMMY makes a have to chew a MUSHY
Unpleasantly damp TENDER
grinding noise lot before
Easy to chew Food that is very
BRITTLE and sticky when bitten swallowing it
soft
Hard but or crushed
breaks easily JUICY STALE
TOUGH
Food that Food that is no
You have to bite
contains a lot longer fresh
quite hard into it
HOW IS IT COOKED? of juice

STEAMED COATED
FRIED
Cooked with the BROWNED Covered with a layer, STEWED
Food
steamed produced using Food slightly fried, especially flour or egg. Food cooked slowly in
cooked in a
heat until browned liquid
pan with oil
BAKED/ROASTED
POACHED STUFFED Food cooked in the BOILED
Food boiled gently filled with seasoned GRILLED Food cooked in a pan
oven
stuff Cooked on a metal frame with hot water
with strong direct heat
DICED
Food cut into
FOOD CAN ALSO BE: small squares

POSITIVE
DELICIOUS, tasty, appetizing,
NEGATIVE
SUCCULENT, juicy, moist,
HARSH, unpleasant to the taste,
YUMMY, delicious,
TASTELESS, lacking flavour
APPEALING, attractive, tempting
DISGUSTING, arousing revulsion
MOUTHWATERING, delicious

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