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    This document provides adjectives to describe various qualities of food including flavor, texture, and appearance. It explains terms like sweet, salty, bitter, tart, smoky, rancid, spicy, creamy, crumbly, crunchy, greasy, gooey, moist, and mushy. Knowing these words allows people to more precisely discuss and share experiences about food, which can bring people together and introduce new cultures. Describing food plays a role in building traditions and making new friends.

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    Adjectives to

    describe foods
    Why learning
    these words? ▫ Food is wonderful. Sharing meals with family and friends can bring people
    together, and remind us of old traditions. We can also build new traditions

    Food is
    with food, and make friends by trying new things together.

    also a good way to introduce people to a


    new culture.

    ▫ However, talking about food isn't always easy. In English, there are many
    specific words to describe how foods taste and how they feel.

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    FLAVOURS
    ▫ Flavors (flavours, UK) are the
    particular tastes of a food.
    ▫ Sweet foods have a sugary
    flavor, such as cake, ice cream,
    chocolate, lollipops and
    mangoes.
    ▫ Savory foods have a a spicy or
    salty flavor, without being
    sweet.

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    SALTY,
    BITTER,
    Salty
    TART, Salty is used to describe food that tastes too much of salt. It is usually used as a negative description.
    SMOKY, This popcorn is very salty; it makes my lips burn. 
     
    RANCID, Bitter
    SPICY/HOT, Bitter describes a strong and sometimes unpleasant flavor that is the opposite of sweet.
    Coffee, very dark chocolate, beer and citrus peel are all bitter.
     
    Tart
    Tart describes a sharp and acidic taste. Sour can also be used, but it often has a negative meaning.
    Lemon, white wine, Greek yogurt, pickles and some raspberries are all tart foods.
     
    Smoky
    Smoky describes foods that taste of smoked wood.
    Bacon, whisky, and lox/smoked salmon are all smoky foods.

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    SALTY,
    BITTER,
    TART,
    Rancid
    SMOKY, Rancid describes the taste of food that has a strong or unpleasant smell or taste because it is no
    RANCID, longer fresh.

    SPICY/HOT, How old is this milk? It smells rancid. 


     
    Spicy/hot
    Spicy is the taste that makes one's mouth burn from strong chilies.
    Hot can be used to describe spicy food or food that has a very high temperature.
    "This curry is HOT!"
    "Do you mean spicy-hot or temperature-hot?"
     

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    TEXTURE

    Texture is the way a food feels


    when you touch it or eat it.

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    CREAMY,
    CRUMBLY,
    CRUNCHY, Creamy
    Creamy foods are smooth, soft and thick. While they are often made with milk or cream, they
    GREASY, don't need to be.
    GOOEY, Avocados, ice cream, macaroni and cheese, yogurt and melted chocolate are all creamy foods.

    MOIST, Crumbly
    MUSHY Crumbly describes food that falls apart into small pieces when you eat or break it.
    I like to put crumbly cheese like gorgonzola and feta into a salad. 

    Crunchy
    Crunchy foods have a hard texture and make a loud sound when chewed.
    Potato chips, nuts, biscotti, raw carrots, and the skin of fried chicken are all crunchy foods.

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    CREAMY,
    CRUMBLY,
    CRUNCHY, Greasy
    GREASY, Greasy foods taste very much of oil, and usually leave oil behind.
    This pizza is so greasy that my entire plate is covered in oil. 
    GOOEY,
    MOIST, Moist
    Moist describes foods that are slightly wet and soft.
    MUSHY Loren makes a delicious and moist chocolate cake. 
     
    Mushy
    Mushy also describes foods that are soft and wet, but usually it is used for food that is not
    meant to be soft.
    All the apples have gone mushy, they must be old.  

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    Thanks!
    Information taken from:
    https://www.kaplaninternational.com/blog/e
    nglish-vocabulary-to-describe-food

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