sweet

This is a piece of chocolate. Chocolate is sweet.

salty

This is a bowl of potato chips. Potato chips are salty.

sour

This is a lemon. Lemons are sour.

Limes are also sour.

bitter

This is a cup of coffee. Sometimes coffee is bitter.

hot / spicy

This is a chili pepper. Chili peppers are hot. They make food spicy.

juicy = moist

This chicken is really juicy.

(When meat is cooked properly and it’s not dry, we say that it’s juicy.)

crunchy / crispy

Crackers are crispy or crunchy.

Some fruit and vegetables are also crunchy or crispy. Celery, lettuce, carrots, and cucumbers are crisp.

A hard apple is crisp.

fresh

When vegetables or fruit are new and taste good, we say they are "fresh."

stale

When bread is old, it gets stale.

Stale food is usually hard, but sometimes it’s soft.

mushy

When food is soft, it’s mushy.

Do you like mushy cereal?