Food Vocabulary

syrupy – having the appearance or quality of syrup; thick or sweet;

Sentence- The sauce should have a syrupy consistency. Add cream and simmer over low heat for 7 to 10 minutes.

sugary – tasting or looking like sugar;

Sentence- The ants like to feed on the sugary liquid which the aphids produce in large drops from their rear end.

crispy – pleasantly thin, dry, and easily broken : having a pleasantly crisp outer layer;

Sentence- I can’t explain how they do it, but these french fries seem to be twice as crispy as most.

bitter – having a strong and often unpleasant flavor that is the opposite of sweet;

Sentence- The medicine had a slightly bitter taste.

juicy – containing a lot of juice;

Sentence- Cut back on those juicy burgers.

sour – having an acid taste that is like the taste of a lemon;

Sentence- The entire house was pervaded by a sour smell.

zesty – having a strong, pleasant, and somewhat spicy flavor;

Sentence- A fruit-driven Chardonnay style with crisp acidity and zesty citrus and stone fruit balanced with a touch of oak.

chewy – something requiring to use your teeth to cut food into small pieces before you swallow it;

Sentence- Anyone who has tasted the sourdough bread made in San Francisco knows about chewy, crusty bread.

spicy – flavored with or containing strong spices and especially ones that cause a burning feeling in your mouth;

Sentence- She’s got a very delicate stomach and doesn’t eat spicy food.

peppery – containing pepper or having the qualities of pepper;

Sentence- What sort of food would you like, peppery taste or sweet taste?

ambrosial – something extremely pleasing to taste or smell;

Sentence- Taking refuge in the Dharma, save the ambrosial water and set up a waterworks in yourselves.

crunchy – having a hard texture and making a loud sound when chewed or crushed: not soft or mushy;

Sentence- This super crunchy coating turns out to be ultra-skinny noodles.

delicious – very pleasant to taste;

Sentence- The pear is a delicious fruit and I like it very much.

savoury – having a pleasant taste or smell;

Sentence- Savoury filo recipes next week; then we want the best recipe for game-bird stuffings.

unflavoured – without flavor additives;

Sentence- No one likes the unflavoured food.

allergy – a medical condition that causes someone to become sick after eating, touching, or breathing something that is harmless to most people;

Sentence- He’s going to have an allergy kit there.

intolerance – exceptional sensitivity (as to a drug); specifically: inability to properly metabolize or absorb a substance;

Sentence- There is often no clear distinction between an allergy and food intolerance.

bulimia – a serious physical and emotional illness in which people and especially young women eat large amounts of food and then cause themselves to vomit in order to not gain weight;

Sentence- The physical consequences of compulsive overeating, anorexia and bulimia can be severe and even fatal.

anorexia – a serious physical and emotional illness in which an abnormal fear of being fat leads to very poor eating habits and dangerous weight loss;

Sentence- The eating disorders, anorexia, bulimia and compulsive overeating.