ReviewFoods (Basel, Switzerland)2020
Multisensory Flavour Perception: Blending, Mixing, Fusion, and Pairing Within and Between the Senses.
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26 citing papers in PubMed, 86 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Soundscapes as Sonic Seasoning of Chocolate: Effects on Taste Perception, Affect, and Liking.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Contextual Visual Cues in Dessert Evaluation: A Mixed-Effects Analysis of Plate Color Effects on Sweetness and Bitterness Perception.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
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- Intercultural Dialogue Begins at the Dining Table: A Unilateral Kosovo Perspective on Turkish-Kosovar Fusion Cuisine.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
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- Pleasantness emotions and neural activity induced by the multimodal crispiness of monaka ice cream.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
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- Multisensory Food Experiences in Northern Norway: An Exploratory Study.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Exploring cheese and red wine pairing by anCurrent research in food science · 2024Article
- Why pair food and drink.Nature food · 2023Article
- Tea pairings: Impact of aromatic congruence on acceptance and sweetness perception.Current research in food science · 2023Article
- Why human olfaction should not be modeled on theories and tasks of vision.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Review
- Gustatory Function in Acute COVID-19 - Results From Home-Based Psychophysical Testing.The Laryngoscope · 2022Article
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- It's crunch time: Exploring the sensibility of food textural acoustics for individuals with dysphagia.The South African journal of communication disorders = Die Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir Kommunikasieafwykings · 2021Article
- Delivering the Multisensory Experience of Dining-Out, for Those Dining-In, During the Covid Pandemic.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Review
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Abstract
This review summarizes the various outcomes that may occur when two or more elements are paired in the context of flavour perception. In the first part, I review the literature concerning what happens when flavours, ingredients, and/or culinary techniques are deliberately combined in a dish, drink, or food product. Sometimes the result is fusion but, if one is not careful, the result can equally well be confusion instead. In fact, blending, mixing, fusion, and flavour pairing all provide relevant examples of how the elements in a carefully-crafted multi-element tasting experience may be combined. While the aim is sometimes to obscure the relative contributions of the various elements to the mix (as in the case of blending), at other times, consumers/tasters are explicitly encouraged to contemplate/perceive the nature of the relationship between the contributing elements instead (e.g., as in the case of flavour pairing). There has been a noticeable surge in both popular and commercial interest in fusion foods and flavour pairing in recent years, and various of the 'rules' that have been put forward to help explain the successful combination of the elements in such food and/or beverage experiences are discussed. In the second part of the review, I examine the pairing of flavour stimuli with music/soundscapes, in the emerging field of 'sonic seasoning'. I suggest that the various perceptual pairing principles/outcomes identified when flavours are paired deliberately can also be meaningfully extended to provide a coherent framework when it comes to categorizing the ways in which what we hear can influence our flavour experiences, both in terms of the sensory-discriminative and hedonic response.
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