Do Colors Effect the Way we Look at Different Foods???
The traditional saying of "we eat with our eyes" means associating of different flavors to certain colors. This is impacted by the accuracy of plate presentation. Although there are many, many more reason and in-depth psychological aspects even to this topic for today, we'll just go over the basics.
How colors and sense affect our foods and how the brain reacts and functions when seeing food and the different triggers we have. This ties in with the different emotions we have as well as shown in the color wheel guide I have here.
As shown here on our emotion wheel guide, we have a wide range of feeling and emotions to color. We use this chart everyday without even realizing it! In reality, there are different way the culinary world manipulates and control the effects of food through different colors.
For a long time people have had a predisposed perception of colors that affect their senses. This is true with many other things besides foods as well. Furniture, clothing and more have been big products of advertisement that can be brand-named to having certain colors like McDonald's and it's golden arches or Target with the bright red Target symbol. They typically are remembered as that product of name but sometime the product may be mistaken or have a different situation.
For example someone might say grab me a Kleenex when really all they need is a tissue but some products have become so branded that people know them as their brand and not necessarily what the product is.
Sometime it can be this way with different foods as well especially fast foods. You may want that certain taco from just Taco Johns or Taco Bells. Pizza, can also be wanted from just pizza Hut or Pizza Ranch to some people as well too.
Large food corporations, factories and companies all add color to there labeling and food products to draw attention typically more in their advertisements then the actual food but it still is a trigger to our minds "Oh lets eat there or lets try that." People grown then developing a certain taste to certain foods depending on the cultures and foods they grew up with.
They way you design and display meals can really effect the way your dish looks and how eye-appealing it may be from your garnishes to plate presentation they can all add a new twist of colors that can make your meal look desirable . In the end hopefully we can all look beyond the colors though and taste what's within.
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Do colors effect the way we look at food? Article 1
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