Heavy crockery and cutlery make food taste better: study

Researchers found that food tasted better when it was eaten with heavy cutlery and crockery.

Oxford University psychologist Professor Charles Spence, who carried out the experiments also found that colour of the plate on which the food is served can also influence its taste.

Volunteers who ate a strawberry dessert from a white plate thought it tasted 10 per cent sweeter than those who ate the same pudding from a black one, the 'Daily Mail' reported.

"For years, we have been spending a lot of time thinking about the taste and colour and sound of the food itself," he said.

"That is all very important but there is a whole area emerging that it seems that no one has ever thought about