Food and cooking
How Food Tastes
Thirteen words for what happens when you take a bite.
- Teens and up
- Confident · B2
- 13 words
The words
Every word in this set, with what it means. Tap a word to hear it.
- dry
- with no water in it
- sweet
- tasting of sugar
- plain
- simple, with no pattern or decoration
- sour
- having a sharp taste like lemon
- bitter
- having a sharp, unpleasant taste
- salty
- having a sharp taste like sea water
- tart
- having a sharp sour taste
- oily
- covered in or full of grease
- spicy
- flavoured strongly enough to burn your tongue
- crispy
- firm and dry, breaking with a light snap when bitten
- crunchy
- hard and noisy to chew
- greasy
- covered in oil or fat
- moist
- slightly wet
