A team of Oxford
 scientists has found
 that hot chocolate
tastes better from 
orange cups. Accord
ing to a study of 57 volunteers by Oxford-based researchers Charles Spence and Betina Piqueras-Fiszman, drinking hot chocolate from orange mugs increases the intensity of flavour, whilst white and red mugs seemed to have a nonexistent or even negative impact. Professor Charles Spence, from the Oxford Psychology Department, commented, “Normally one sees that red is associated with sweetness so we were surprised not to see that.”
Even the cutlery used can alter the taste of food. Whereas gold plated spoons were reported to have little effect on the taste of whipped cream, zinc and copper spoons made it taste more bitter.
