Can temperature affect your love of food and drink?<\/h1>\n
Water is a bit like marmite, you either love it or hate it. Whether you find it boring, tasteless or flavourless, it is needed for our bodies hydration and wellness. You can impact how it tastes, the effect it can have on foods you are eating and your enjoyment levels when you understand how temperature effects your 10,000 taste buds.<\/strong><\/p>\n Even from an early age I was introduced to adding something to water to encourage me to drink it. Depending on your age you may or may never have experienced a powdered orange juice drink. You added the sachet to water and it would make up a jug full, we had Apeel by Bird\u2019s, but Kellogg\u2019s also did one called Rise n Shine. Now we have squash, which is such a British thing by the way or maybe you just don\u2019t drink water at all? Is it down to the taste, it\u2019s boring or that there is always something more exciting to choose.<\/span><\/p>\n As a child our drinks were always kept in the fridge, or I\u2019d watch my parents and grandparents run the cold tap, put a finger under to see if it was cold enough before filling up our glasses. Guess what, I still do this now. But this has influenced me in the temperature to which I prefer to drink, and that\u2019s around 4-5o<\/sup>C, ideally straight from the fridge or chiller cabinet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.9.7″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.9.7″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.9.7″ _module_preset=”default”]<\/p>\n Travelling in Asia, I noticed that drinks were served at room temperature, and that people mostly drank hot water. This is from a historical basis that in the 1930\u2019s, to prevent people from getting infectious diseases they suggested boiling water to kill of the microbes and bacteria. Continuing to do this to this day, with the thought that it also supports digestion and wellness, and their preferred taste. In Britain, we have strict water treatment plants that we can drink water directly from the tap, rather than having to boil it. Across the UK you get a different tap water drinking experience depending on where you are, this is a mixture of subjectivity, science, and geography. Hard water areas, across the south and east, where you may experience a \u201cchalky mouthfeel\u201d due to the calcium and magnesium contents. Where soft water areas, throughout Scotland, Cornwall, Devon, parts of Wales and Northern Ireland, are thought to have less \u201ctaste\u201d and only contains sodium. But is taste the same as flavour? Flavour is a mixture of sensory information \u2013 taste, smell and the tactile sensation that is known as \u201cmouthfeel\u201d \u2013 when we say we are experience water as \u201clight\u201d or \u201cheavy\u201d in the mouth. Where as 10,000 taste buds determine how we sense taste. With receptors on our tongue allowing us to distinguish between tastes \u2013 sweet, savoury, bitter, salty and sour.<\/p>\n The reason foods taste different at different temperatures, and we have a preference for drinks at specific temperatures is because our taste buds for sweet, bitter and sour work best within a specific temperature range: from 15-35o<\/sup>C. 15o<\/sup>C being cool room temperature (average UK room temp is 18o<\/sup>C) and 35o<\/sup>C being lukewarm (just below body temperature, 37o<\/sup>C).<\/p>\n Best way to describe sweet taste buds are to think of my can of Coca-Cola that has been left on the side, how sweet it is compared to when it comes straight out of the fridge \u2013 sickly sweet. Or chocolate that is kept in the fridge (best place in my opinion \u2013 especially Cadbury Giant Chocolate Buttons) is less sweet, also less \u201cchocolatey\u201d and less creamy. With these two examples it shows my taste buds are less sweet.<\/p>\n Other examples include is beer as it gets warmer is more bitter, or how piping hot vegetables are less bitter and have stronger taste than those served at room temperature. Or that cheese becomes sourer at room temperature \u2013 think of French smelly cheese.<\/p>\n Impacting on you eating these foods is the temperature of your mouth, some examples:<\/p>\n Having the right water, at the right temperature can make or break the experience of a meal. Water sommeliers, someone who is educated in the properties of water and the elements that affect it, have taken the time to work with LUQEL to pair the right water and its mineral properties to compliment the 30 recipes available in the LUQEL Water Station. Doing the hard work for us and adding flavour to water by balancing our taste receptors and increasing the enjoyment factor. Each glass of water from LUQEL is the same no matter where in the country or world, you dispense a glass, this is down the unique three stage filtration process which creates a base pure water before the minerals are added back in to create your individual water.<\/p>\n I am still occasionally having Vimto squash in my water, but I’ve increase the temperature that I am drinkin it at and enjoying the new taste. Not sure I will be converted to room temperature “fat” coke vs chilled. Maybe that will change as I get older! LUQEL<\/strong>\u00a0is a pioneer in water technology, its\u2019 mission is to radically change the way people drink water to make a lasting difference. Visionary innovations make plastic superfluous. 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