Blueberries and raspberries together maker a pretty picture, as you can see on my latest cover photo for the Pairteas Facebook page. But do they taste good together?
Depends on what you consider "together!"
Summer delights! -- A photo by Tiago Faifa, that I found at http://unsplash.com.
If you take both berries together in the same mouthful you won’t get much of either flavor: raspberries activate the warm/hot receptors, and blueberries activate the cool/cold, so each inhibits the other.
Or maybe the blueberries will dominate because the cool/cold receptors are quicker to respond to a stimulus than are the warm/hot receptors.
But start with raspberries alone. Next eat a few blueberries, and feel the raspberry flavor disappear. Then wait for a few beats, or maybe a little longer. The raspberry taste will start to come back! Then of course enjoy some raspberries again, and repeat the whole experience.
Which teas make these berries happy? As you may have guessed, green teas go with blueberries—activation of the cool/cold receptors is so refreshing! And black teas are delicious with raspberries—both black tea and raspberries have the flavorful chemical raspberry ketone in them, which activates the warm/hot receptors!
Give the experiment a try and let me know what happens!
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