# Taste & Texture Essentials

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- CEFR: A2 (Elementary)
- Theme: Food & Drink
- Words: 12
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Food vocabulary for describing taste and texture, using words like sweet, salty and spicy alongside crunchy and juicy to say whether a dish tastes delicious…

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## Word list

* **delicious** /dɪˈlɪʃəs/: Having a very pleasant taste or smell. — “The soup smelled absolutely **delicious**.”
* **sweet** /swit/: Having a taste like sugar or honey. — “These grapes are really **sweet**.”
* **salty** /ˈsɔlti/: Tasting of the sea, the way crisps and bacon do. — “These chips are far too **salty** for me.”
* **spicy** /ˈspaɪsi/: Having a strong taste that burns your mouth a little, like chilli. — “This curry is much too **spicy** for the children.”
* **fresh** /frɛʃ/: Picked or made only a short time ago, and not old or frozen. — “The bread is **fresh** — it came out an hour ago.”
* **taste** /teɪst/: To put a little food in your mouth to see if it is nice. — “Can I **taste** the sauce before you add salt?”
* **yummy** /ˈjʌmi/: an informal word meaning delicious, often used by or to children. — “This cake is so **yummy**!”
* **tasty** /ˈteɪsti/: having a good, strong flavour; pleasant to eat. — “The curry was really **tasty**.”
* **crunchy** /ˈkrʌntʃi/: making a noise when you bite it, like fresh crisps or an apple. — “The crisps were fresh and **crunchy**.”
* **yucky** /ˈjʌki/: an informal word for something that tastes or looks very unpleasant. — “He said the medicine was **yucky**.”
* **lukewarm** /ˈluˈkwɔrm/: Only slightly warm, when it should be hot. — “The soup arrived **lukewarm** and nobody said anything.”
* **juicy** /ˈdʒusi/: Full of juice and pleasant to eat. — “The peaches were so **juicy** we had to eat them over the sink.”

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