In the Cup · 04: Flavour lives in your nose

IN THE CUP · 04
Flavour lives in your nose

Most of what you call flavour is actually smell.

1. Sniff the cup and you get aroma. Breathe out as you swallow and aromas rise from the back of your mouth to your nose. That's retronasal smell, and it becomes flavour.
2. Your tongue picks up the basic tastes: sweet, sour, salty, bitter and umami. Blueberry and jasmine come through your nose.
3. Try it: pinch your nose, take a sip, then let go. The flavour rushes back.
4. When you cup, slurp to spray the coffee across your mouth, then breathe out gently through your nose.


Try the pinched-nose test and tell us what changed.

I'm Mohsen Sadri of Fair Connection Consultancy in Dubai.
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