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Exercise "Notions of taste : spice 2", created by chocolatcitron (a free exercise to learn English):
Results of the 360 people who have taken this test:
Average mark: 74.5 / 100 Share
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Stats (360 candidates)
Question 1 passed: 70.3 %
Did you know that there are several varieties of * ? It tastes bitter and powerful. It may have lemon notes. It is an antiseptic, thanks to the thymol it contains.
Question 2 passed: 56.9 %
With a slightly aniseed taste, I am eaten especially in fresh soups, salads, omelettes, I'm said "cow-parsley". Be careful, a variety of '*' is alike two peas in a pod but is actually hemlock, an umbelliferae, which is also a violent poison: never eat hemlock or you'll die!
Question 3 passed: 52.8 %
With my delicately lemony and herbaceous green notes I am said to be diuretic and digestive. If I don't tolerate cooking well, I accompany fish, white meats, sauces and eggs: I am *.
Question 4 passed: 81.1 %
Spicy, sulfurous, very powerful, raw or cooked, but be careful, if you consider raw consumption, the earlier I am prepared, or the more I am tortured and the stronger I am, until I exhale bitter flavours: I am *. But cooked I can have a delicious perfumed stock and caramelized taste, provided I started my cooking at low temperature.
Question 5 passed: 81.4 %
Sweetness, roundness, enchanting, very aromatic, sweet with woody, cocoa or floral notes, I evoke tropical countries, especially The Malagasy, Indonesian or the Reunion islands, I am the * bean.
Question 6 passed: 74.7 %
Sulphured non partitioned, pinkish or yellowish bulb, with a sweeter and finer flavour than onion, I display a sweet taste, I am consumed rather raw than cooked, because I can become bitter and acrid during a long cooking: I am *.
Question 7 passed: 74.4 %
Gentle or more often very spicy or even burning, I diffuse the fire into the digestive system and the venous system that I tone, my use is cultural and not everyone supports me! I am sweet when I come from Espelette, and very strong when I come from Cayenne, according to my capsaicin level... Usually red or green, I am *. They put out my fire with some milk or cheese, but especially not with any water!
Question 8 passed: 79.2 %
Spicy and strong when raw, it always softens and whatever its colour, white, yellow, pinkish, red or purple, when it is cooked: sometimes sweet raw, when it grows in the Cévenne region, it seasons salads. In order not to cry, it must be peeled underwater. You guessed it is the * with the taste of sulphur.
Question 9 passed: 89.2 %
This plant is a festival of flavours and adopts various spicy tastes, depending on the variety you will get a lemony taste, licorice, mint, spices, camphor, cinnamon or cloves, which allows everyone to create a * dish that suits them.
Question 10 passed: 75.3 %
The more finely you grind me the more pungent I am. I have, as in question 9, very different flavours depending on my origins. Coming from a liana, (not from a tree), I can be green, red, white or black. Worldly used, don't be fooled by fakes * !
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