Dear MEL School’s Topic Readers,
Why does food taste different on planes?
How different do foods and drinks taste on
the plane from on the ground? There seem to be various factors that affect how
you taste, or more importantly smell, meals served on board. These factors are
humidity, air pressure, vibration and noise. For instance, humidity in the
cabin goes even drier than in the desert. And imagine the continuous vibration
and noise that you normally aren’t bothered in a dining room on the ground. These
factors affect your sense of taste greatly. And more complicatedly, the
sensation of tastes, such as salty, sweet, sour, bitter and umami, are affected
differently. For example, you may feel much less sweet or salty in the air while
bitterness or sourness is less affected. As a result, airline chefs have to
come up with menus that can be enjoyed in such a harsh environment as well as sommeliers
who are required to select wines that balance passengers’ satisfaction and
carrier’s budget.
Enjoy reading and learning why foods and drinks
taste different in an air cabin.
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