Strawberries and cream, strawberries and chocolate,
strawberries and vinegar. Wait. Vinegar?
Our palates are used to a variety of tried and tested flavour combinations; things that just go together.
Then there's food combinations you never considered, but strangely enough they also work.
Why? The science of taste is complicated.
Recipes from the Western world tend to combine flavours that share certain compounds, scientists have discovered, but they've also found that recipes from East Asia avoid combining flavours with shared compounds. Thai tastes terrific, and so does Italian, so how does that work?
We take a look at six unusual flavour combinations from across the globe.
They might be foreign ideas to you, but don't worry, they're hugely popular back home.
6. Peanuts and
Pouring salty peanuts into sweet ice cold Coca-Cola is
a practice that goes back for generations for Southerners in the United
States. Click here for a food
historian’s insights on this combination
Our palates are used to a variety of tried and tested flavour combinations; things that just go together.
Then there's food combinations you never considered, but strangely enough they also work.
Why? The science of taste is complicated.
Recipes from the Western world tend to combine flavours that share certain compounds, scientists have discovered, but they've also found that recipes from East Asia avoid combining flavours with shared compounds. Thai tastes terrific, and so does Italian, so how does that work?
We take a look at six unusual flavour combinations from across the globe.
They might be foreign ideas to you, but don't worry, they're hugely popular back home.
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