美国科学60秒 SSS 2013-07-02（在线收听）

 　　That spoon sure looks yummy. Not that I am planning on eating my utensils, but the appearance and feel of cutlery influences the taste of food. That's according to a study in the journal Flavor. It was already known that plate size, background music and even lighting can influence eating habits. To test the effect of cutlery, researchers served food with cutlerier with different weights, colors and shapes. When volunteers ate yogurt with lighter spoons, they read (?) that taste as denser and more expsensive. Spoon color was important as well. A blue spoon made white yogurt taste less salty than the same yogurt dyed pink. And a black spoon made both yogurt tast less sweet. Researcher also fed subjects cheddar cheese, who said the cheese eating from a knife seemed saltier than cheese eating from a fork, spoon or toothpick. Clearly, outside clues have a huge influence on how food tastes and also on our eating habits, which makes color your choice of place settings at your next dinner party.