pretaste

English

Etymology

pre- +‎ taste

Noun

pretaste (plural pretastes)

1. A taste taken beforehand.
   • 2013, Maynard A. Amerine, ‎Rose Marie Pangborn, ‎Edward B. Roessler, Principles of Sensory Evaluation of Food (page 308)

     […] sodium chloride was discriminated significantly better after a pretaste of distilled water, hot bouillon, hot coffee (1% level), or tomato juice (5% level), than after milk, apple juice, or raw apple.

Anagrams

• prestate