Different spoon can make you swoon

Volunteers rated white yoghurt as sweeter and more expensive than pink yoghurt when eaten from a white spoon.

The effect was reversed for yoghurt tasted from a black spoon. In this case, the pink variety was preferred.

A blue spoon also made pink yoghurt taste significantly saltier than white yoghurt, the researchers found. And yoghurt tasted richer from a light plastic spoon than from a weighted heavier one.

In another experiment, cheese tasted saltier when offered on a knife instead of a spoon, fork or toothpick.

Lead researcher Vanessa Harrar, from Oxford University, said: “How we experience food is a multisensory experience involving taste, feel of the food in our mouths, aroma, and the feasting of our eyes.”