Aha Moment: Why Cold Drinks Taste Better in Summer

The sun shines, it's why and you take a sip of ice-cold soda and suddenly tastes twice as good.But why is that so?For the first time it's exciting to understand how the temperature of the food and drinks themselves affects our taste buds. At warmer temperatures, we notice sweetness more intensely, while bitter notes are more attenuated. Cold drinks, on the other hand, often seem fresher and clearer, because they "cool" our sense of taste for a s…