article_snippet.sent: Listening to The Beatles could help to enhance the enjoyment of a fish and chip supper, psychologists have found.
article_snippet.sent: Research suggests that certain types of music can bring out specific flavours - including sweet, salty and bitter - in a range of foods.
article_snippet.sent: Listening to the right sort of music, including The Beatles (pictured) can enhance flavours in certain food and drink, researchers have found .
article_snippet.sent: Researchers found people enjoyed people wine more while listening to 'paired' music, rather than while being sat in silence.
article_snippet.sent: Professor Charles Spence, a behavioral psychologist from Oxford University, told the Observer's Neil Tweedle that taste is not as dominant as we might think in judging a meal and that we ears might subconsciously talk to we tastebuds.
article_snippet.sent: the Observer's Neil Tweedle said: 'Music cannot create taste or flavours that are not there in your mouth, but your mouth can draw attention to certain notes in a wine or food that are competing in your mind...
article_snippet.sent: Mr Spence added that humans tend to match the same sounds to the same tastes.
article_snippet.sent: To carry out Mr Spence research, Mr Spence gives people two pieces of identical chocolate and asks two pieces of identical chocolate to each eat one while listening to a different piece of classical music.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Spence said that, as well as music, colour and even the weight of cutlery are factors which can combine to make a dining experience more enjoyable.
article_snippet.sent: Ambient lighting was found to have a positive effect on a person's enjoyment, with red light bringing out the fruitiness in red wine.
highlights_snippet.sent: Research suggests certain types of music can bring out specific flavours .
  