Do you actually TASTE a food before you decide you don't like it, or do you just go by how it looks/smells?

Answer 1

Looks and smells.

Answer 2

The brain initially decides by the memory of the taste, its smell, its after taste. Associations with the event of eating/tasting the food is secondary. But generally, if you're really hungry it's the smell that triggers a memory of the taste of something.

Answer 3

The smell has a lot to do with it, if it does not smell good I will never taste it.

Answer 4

I would have to taste the food,because liver and onions smells good when it is being cooked, but it tastes disgusting.

Answer 5

I base it first on looks, then on smell, then taste.

Answer 6

I eat a lot of Korean food. i stopped asking after a while. a lot of it smells like doo doo, but it tastes good.

Answer 7

I've never been put off by the way food looks, but if it smells nasty, I might not want to put it in my mouth.

Answer 8

Taste it. You never know, it might actually taste good but look like hell.

Answer 9

i actually taste it because sometimes a food can look more disgusting than it looks

Answer 10

I always go by the look & smell.