does the way food look affect our taste?!

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I dont think so.... WASSUP!!!!!

Not the actual taste, but it will affect how palatable or desirable you find the food. While taste directly wouldn't be affected, your PERCEPTION of the taste and experience would be.

Think if you coloured the tomato sauce on your pasta blue. It's just pasta sauce, and would taste the same, but it would not likely be as palatable to you at first, because visually, you are expecting red sauce.

The same may go for a very attractively prepared plate vs. something just "slopped" in the middle. Even if they are the same thing, you will likely prefer the more attractive food.

The look of food provides us many psychological cues, especially as an omnivore who has to be make distinctions about what to eat or not.

No, it does not. It may change the way we feel torwards that food, but if anything about the taste of food changes because of it's appearance, its your imagination acting on the unapealing image of the food. :D hope this helps!

I have to argue that it does. for a science fair project we made sugar cookies, divided the dough and made each part a dif. color with food coloring and then tested them with twelve dif. ppl the stats were that most ppl liked the red ones better,,,go figure

the placebo effect can take hold and make you taste things you cant so yes it can but only if the person can see it and are bothered by the sight

Absolutely!

No