Adjectives for Describing Food

This slideshow clearly illustrates useful vocabulary for teaching ESL students how to talk about food. It contains many adjectives that cover taste and texture. At the end, there is a short test for the students. See http://davidteaching.blogspot.com for more lesson materials.

1. Some useful food adjectives Describing Food

2. Bitter  - Having a strong, often unpleasant taste e.g. coffee, dark chocolate.

3. Sweet  - Usually an enjoyable taste of sugar. 

4. Dry  - Not wet.

5. Moist  - A little wet.

6. Bland  - Boring, not interesting.

7. Spicy  - Having strong flavours from spice. 

8. Savoury  - Not sweet e.g. bread.

9. Sour  - Having a sharp taste e.g yogurt, lemon.

10. Greasy  - Containing or covered with fat or oil.

11. More…. Rich  - Rich food has a lot of butter, cream, or eggs in it.  Salty  - Tastes of salt. Tasty  - Good flavour and is nice to eat . Sugary  - Tastes of sugar . Scrumptious  - delicious . Piping hot  -Very hot. Crunchy  - Firm and making a loud noise when it is eaten . Fresh – Newly prepared or grown food Stale – Food which is been sitting out too long

12. Test 1. My cousin used to eat lemons for breakfast. I don't know how, they're so ___. sweet  sour 2. I don't like ___ food. I always use a lot of sauces or gravy. dry moist 3. Authentic curries are usually very ___. bland spicy

13. 4. I love chocolate cake, but that one was so ___ I could barely finish it! rich savoury 5. Yuck! This soup is way too ___! salty tasty 6. I love pizza, but sometimes it’s a bit too ___. greasy sugary

14. 7. Yuck! I think this milk is ___. sour scrumptious 8. I love ___ food, like chocolate, cookies and cakes. savoury   sweet 9. Not only was the service bad, when the food arrived it was ___. piping hot lukewarm 10. I like really ___ salads, that have carrots and peppers in them. crunchy dry 

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