DESCRIBING FOOD HOW DOES IT TASTE? SOUR Having an acid taste SWEET like lemon or vinegar CRUNCHY BITTER BLAND HOT Having a sharp, pungent taste or smell; not sweet MILD "Tasteless” unseasoned orto Food easy otherwise digest uninteresting SHARP Plenty of chilli, usually, orSour, occasionally tangy, only pepper acid HOW IS ITS TEXTURE? MOIST Taste characteristic CRISPY Food a little wetof sugar or honey; not salty or and bitter Firm, dry, brittle, especially in a way considered pleasing Food that TENDER makes a grinding noise Easy to chew BRITTLE when bitten or crushed Hard but breaks JUICY easily TOUGH RIPE Food that is ready to eat CLAMMY Unpleasantly damp and sticky Food that You have to bite quite contains a lot of hard into it juice HOW IS IT COOKED? STEAMED COATED FRIED BROWNED STEWED Coveredwith Cooked withthe a layer, steamed Food cooked Food slightly fried, especially using produced flour heat or egg Food cooked slowly in in a pan with until browned liquid oil BAKED/ROASTED BOILED STUFFED POACHED Food cooked in the GRILLED Food cooked in a pan filled boiled Food with seasoned gently oven Cooked on a metal frame with hot water stuff with strong direct heat DICED Food cut into POSITIVE small squares FOOD CAN ALSO BE: DELICIOUS, tasty, appetizing, NEGATIVE SUCCULENT, juicy, moist, HARSH, unpleasant to the taste, YUMMY, delicious, TASTELESS, lacking flavour APPEALING, attractive, tempting DISGUSTING, arousing revulsion MOUTHWATERING, delicious STODGY RICH Very heavy Food of strong flavour, usually sweet, but not always SALTY Food tasting of, containing, or preserved with salt CREAMY Dense foods that take a while to digest CHEWY Food that you have to chew a lot before swallowing it SPICY Full of flavours such as cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, ginger / OILY GREASY Food that has been fried in oil MUSHY Food that is very soft STALE Food that is no longer fresh