Eating With Our Ears: The Sound of Food
The Food Chain
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How Do High Notes Enhance Sweet Taste?
Researchers discover that high notes higher frequency sounds enhance sweet taste and lower notes lower frequency notes bring out the bitter taste. So if I'm sat at home chomping through a piece of chocolate how that chocolate will taste could differ depending on what music I might happen to be playing in the background. Professor Charles Spence: "Absolutely sounds bizarre and it certainly doesn't necessarily work on absolutely everybody but for those on whom it works"
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