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"Can you guess the ingredient that may make your food taste even more delicious?\nPinterestFacebookWell, OK...that&amp;#39;s kind of a trick question, since this thing that you add isn&amp;#39;t really an ingredient&amp;#8212;it&amp;#39;s something you do before eating. A new study from Minnesota University has found that the rituals you carry out before doing things like slicing into your birthday cake (blowing out the candles) or sipping the perfect cup of coffee (sitting down at your desk) can enhance the flavors of food.\nFor the study (which was recently published in Psychological Science), researchers gave some participants a piece of chocolate and instructed them to break it in half without unwrapping it, eat one of the halves, and then unwrap the other half and eating it. The other participants got to eat the chocolate however they wanted to. Those who had performed the task of breaking the chocolate rated the taste more highly and even said they&amp;#39;d pay more for the treat.\nThe same held true when a similar ritual was held with...carrots! And one more experiment involved participants watching someone making lemonade from start to finish&amp;#8212;but no one thought the drink tasted better with that one. Researchers suspect that a ritual&amp;#39;s success depends on personal involvement; that it draws you into what you&amp;#39;re doing, which results in a more positive experience (and better taste!).\nDo you have any rituals that you perform (consciously or not) before you eat or drink something?\nPhoto: Getty Images"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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