A professor at Oxford has set forth a new realm of the scientific world called Gastro Physics. It seems that he is finding that the environment shapes the process of eating. What is being reported today is that food looks and tastes less desirable when served on a red plate.

There may be some association with red being the color telling us there is danger. Don’t eat what is on this plate! It is also possible that because there is less contrast between the food and the plate, the visual palette is not stimulated in the same way a white plate so beautifully displays the food.

What is in your cupboard?