Words that describe how food tastes; acidic appetising bitter bland creamy delectable delicate delicious disgusting exquisite flat flavourless flavoursome fresh fruity good greasy healthy hot inedible insipid juicy mild nasty nice palatable peppery plain pleasant poisonous rank rare raw rich rotten salty sharp smoky spicy sour stale strong succulent sugary sweet tangy tart tasteless tasty unappetising unpalatable unpleasant watery

	Words that describe how food smells and different words for smell; acrid aroma aromatic bad bouquet disagreeable essence foul fragrance fragrant fruity heady noxious odour off offensive perfume pungent rank reek scent scentless spicy stale stink strong whiff

	Words to describe how food feels; coarse cold crisp cushiony damp dry fine firm flabby flaky flexible fragile grainy granular greasy hairy hard hot juicy limp moist mushy powdery rigid satiny silky smooth soft soggy spongy springy squelchy sticky stiff stretchy tender tough velvety warm waxy

These lists of vocabulary can be used to support the children with their descriptive writing. It can also be used as a basis for a number of other activities;

Ask the children to add their own words to the lists.

Ask the children to identify opposites.

Ask the children to arrange the words into two different groups; pleasant and unpleasant.

Ask the children to create a shape poem describing their feelings about a particular fruit or vegetable.