Yogurt Tastes Different Depending on the Spoon  Jun 27, 2013
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Different Depending on the Spoon  Yogurt eaten with a
lightweight plastic spoon is tastier. Photo credit: Getty Images
Lightweight plastic spoons make food taste yummier. That’s the
conclusion of a study published in the journal Flavour that set
out to determine if the spoon you use to eat your yogurt makes a
difference in how it tastes.  It turns out the answer is yes.
7 Summer Calorie Bombs  After sampling yogurt with several
different spoons, the 35 participants in the Oxford University
study voted the yogurt eaten from a lightweight plastic spoon as
creamier and more expensive tasting compared to the same yogurt
eaten from a heavier plastic spoon.  In previous studies the
Oxford team found that people prefer food eaten with a heavier
silver spoon and in general prefer heavier plates, cups and even
wine bottles.  However, in this case, subjects were expecting
the plastic spoons to