Supertasters
Are you a supertaster? Take a test and find out.
I am, as I already knew, a normal taster. And as my sense of smell diminishes, my desire for intense tastes ramps up. I've just written a post about all this over at eat our brains, but if you just want the facts, just go take the test.
I am, as I already knew, a normal taster. And as my sense of smell diminishes, my desire for intense tastes ramps up. I've just written a post about all this over at eat our brains, but if you just want the facts, just go take the test.
posted by Maureen McHugh at 10:42 AM
5 Comments:
What a silly test! Each meal is savored for different reasons. I eat out for socializing and of course want to talk to my friends while eating and tasting. You can both enjoy your fellows at the table and the food simultaneously.
There COULD be a good test for determining what an individuals' tastebuds prefer, but this ain't it.
Ellen
Exactly. There's not a question on that test that wouldn't vary with the restaurant, the menu, the circumstances in which I found myself there, any expectations I had going in, et cetera. The test seems very flawed to me, no offense to Prof. Utermohlen.
Apparently I'm somewhere between a supertaster and a non-taster, but definitely not a normal taster.
I think this is because the question about conversation after the food arrives didn't have an option for "talk with your mouth full".
I came up a "supertaster", but I already knew that. (I am the world's pickiest eater. I can't even be in the same room with broccoli or coffee, and I can't handle any of the other foods they listed, either.) That said, the questions in the survey seem utterly senseless to me. Why not ask "do you like ____"?
Yeah, these surveys get silly, and yet it tells me I'm a Supertaster and indeed, I dislike coffee, cabbage (in most cases), grapefruit, and especially Brussels sprouts. I do like fresh spinach, but not the frozen pulp crap that was the only stuff my parents tried to feed me back in the day. Pretty accurate, I thought.
D
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