Sharpen your sense of taste

Identify flavours:

Saltiness, sweetness, acidity, bitterness can be recognised by tasting salt, sugar, lemon juice and unsweetened cocoa.

Detect the aromas:

Put in your mouth the edible ingredients whose scents you can now identify with your eyes closed. Now you can taste their aromas. They travel from the back of the palate to the nose, so you then experience again in the mouth the sensations originally perceived through the nose (a phenomenon known as retro-olefaction).
Try this experiment to convince yourself; take a glass of mint syrup and smell it.

Finish with a ‘blind tasting’.