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Survey Shows Brits Dismiss Unfamiliar Foods but Embrace Them in Blind Taste Tests

More than half of participants revised their opinions following blind trials with plant-based cheese proving indistinguishable from dairy to over 90 per cent of tasters

Overview

  • The average UK adult refuses eight foods, five of which have never been tasted
  • Six in ten Brits admit to disliking foods they haven’t tried; sushi, black pudding and kimchi top the list
  • Blind tastings at summer food festivals commissioned by Boursin Plant-based prompted 53 per cent of participants to change their opinions after trying new items
  • Health benefits and blind trials each motivated one in five respondents to sample unfamiliar flavours
  • Fewer than one in ten attendees could distinguish Boursin’s plant-based cheese from a dairy version