Salt + Acid
Bright, sharp, savoury recipes that use salt and acidity to create impact.
Experience Food
Recipes built around what you can still detect
Food and drink designed for people navigating reduced or lost taste — using contrast, texture, acidity, salt, sweetness, umami, and sensation to help food feel satisfying again.
Start with what still works
These recipes are not arranged like a traditional recipe site. Instead, they are built around the sensory elements that may still register when flavour is reduced or unreliable.
Recipe Library
Explore the recipes
Browse dishes by the sensations they are designed to support:
Saltiness, sweetness, acidity, umami, crunchiness, bitternes, richness, heat...
Garlic Prawns in Crispy Wontons
Twelve crunchy baskets of garlicky heat, smooth sour cream, peppery arugula, and warm garlic prawns.
Christine's Spicy Italian Sausage Pasta
Creamy, spicy Italian sausage pasta with parmesan, chilli flakes, and baby spinach.
Ginger Biscuits
Sweet, glowing ginger biscuits with a chewy centre, crisp edges, and warm spice.
Natasha's Bacon Water Chestnuts
Sweet, salty, fresh, and crisp bacon-wrapped water chestnuts glazed with maple syrup.
Jalapeño Poppers with Maple Glazed Bacon
Sweet, salty, creamy, smoky jalapeño poppers with maple-glazed bacon and unpredictable heat.
Watermelon, Feta, and Cucumber Salad
A refreshing high-contrast salad combining sweetness, salt, acidity, crunch, and cooling freshness for people navigating reduced taste.
Chicken & Lemon Meatballs
Fresh, juicy chicken meatballs with lemon, feta, garlic, and herbs that create brightness and savoury contrast.
Lemon Posset
A chilled lemon cream dessert that is smooth, rich, sharp, and deeply satisfying.
Honey Mustard Roast Potato Salad
Crunchy, garlicky, sweet, creamy roasted potato salad
Jamaican Ginger Cake
Spicy, sweet, soft, moist ginger cake.
Sensory Starting Points
Explore by taste balance
These groupings are a guide to how recipes can be built around what someone may still notice, rather than around traditional food categories.
Umami + Texture
Deep, savoury recipes with crunch, creaminess, or contrast to make food more satisfying.
Sweet + Sharp
Recipes that combine sweetness with citrus, vinegar, ginger, mustard, or other bright sensations.
Heat + Aroma
Recipes that use chilli, mustard, ginger, garlic, herbs, or spice to create a stronger sensory signal.
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Taste Compass recipe matching
The Taste Compass will help match recipes to the things someone can still detect — then suggest a small set of food and drink ideas that fit that balance.