What is the effect of different senses on the taste of coffee flavor? Be careful that your tongue is misled!

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When it comes to coffee tasting, the only senses we can use are taste and smell. In fact, what we usually call taste is actually a unique combination of all our senses-smell, hearing, vision, and, of course, taste. So will these different senses affect our sense of taste?

The sense of taste understood by the editor is actually a sense of taste, which allows us to distinguish the different tastes of food, just as we can taste sweet, sour, bitter and salty from a cup of coffee. By the way, spicy is not a sense of taste, but a sense of pain.

Sense of smell

The sense of smell has a great influence on drinking a cup of coffee ~ it seems to be the same thing, and it tastes different when you have a cold and when you have a stuffy nose. If you want to know what effect smell has on taste, you might as well try to find a marshmallow or something, hold your nose and eat it, and you can only feel that it is sweet and soft. but when you open your nose, you will find that there is a rich taste of oranges, grapes, apples and so on. In this way, we can obviously feel the effect of smell on taste.

Vision

It is acceptable that smell has a certain effect on taste, but does vision also have an effect on taste?

In fact, our eyes can be said to be the second feeling that affects our taste. To take the simplest example: Coke and Sprite taste the same! Both are mainly sugar + water, and then add pigments, flavors and other things on this basis. If you close your eyes and drink these two drinks, you will find that the taste is similar, basically the slight irritation of sweetness and carbonic acid.

Sense of hearing

At first glance, it doesn't seem to matter, but please think about it carefully. What was the sound in the coffee shop you went to? You will find that most coffee shops seem to use a softer, lyrical style of BGM. This is mainly because the two different things we hear in our ears can actually change your perception of taste: treble and bass.

If the noise increases, the guests will feel that the food is neither sweet nor salty, and if the noise decreases, the feeling of these flavors will be enhanced. The results show that noise has a masking effect.

There is another interesting thing called "sonic seasoning": the brain tries to combine the two dynamics of "food and music" to form a new experience. For example, a gloomy voice will make people feel that the drink has a bitter taste, while a higher tune will make it taste sweeter.

Ha, did not expect that our eyes, nose and ears will also mislead our tongue. So if we want to taste a cup of coffee, then we have to have more sensitive and reliable senses, which is inseparable from the usual relevant training and correction.

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