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All the Feels: How Texture Makes Taste

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How Mouth Behavior Affects Food Taste

What kind of mouth behavior category you fall into is not just weird and interesting. It actually ends up affecting how your food tastes. The chewers, for example, when they're eating chocolate with menthol, with mint added, the chewers got this massively fast peak of a really high hit of menthol but it went away really quickly. So if you liked mint chocolate, it was a more pleasurable experience because you didn't get that overbearing hit. Our mouth behavior is our tendency towards whether we like to chew things or suck things or crunch things Or smoosh things with our tongue. We'll have a lot of influence in the foods that we seek out and the foods that

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