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Taste & Texture vocabulary — A2

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 or yucky.

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