Question 1

What is a food personality test?

Accepted Answer

A food personality test measures your stable taste preferences across multiple sensory dimensions to identify your food personality type. SMAKO™ is a food personality test based on 12 peer-reviewed studies in sensory science. It measures 6 biological dimensions of taste — including bitterness sensitivity linked to the TAS2R38 gene — to assign you one of 64 distinct taste types. It takes 3 minutes, requires no food knowledge, and is completely free.

Question 2

Is SMAKO like MBTI?

Accepted Answer

SMAKO™ is its own category — taste personality. Where MBTI measures cognition and behavior, SMAKO™ measures sensory preferences across 6 dimensions: Energy (bright vs cozy), Weight (light vs rich), Texture (velvety vs grippy), Flavor (savory vs juicy), Sensitivity (fine vs tolerant), and Explorer (adventurous vs loyal). They sit in the same family of identity systems but answer different questions. SMAKO™ is grounded in peer-reviewed taste science including TAS2R38 genetics research.

Question 3

How does the food personality test work?

Accepted Answer

The SMAKO™ test asks 24 questions about your stable taste preferences — not what you're craving right now, but how you actually eat and drink. Each question measures one of 6 sensory dimensions. Your answers produce a 6-letter taste code that maps to one of 64 unique taste types, each with a single food-word name like MISO, EMBER, or CAPER. You get a collectible character card, cuisine matches, food predictions, and can compare compatibility with friends.

Question 4

How many taste types are there?

Accepted Answer

There are 64 SMAKO™ taste types organized into 8 families: ZEST, SPRITZ, CURE, TORCH, BREW, FOLD, CHAR, and BRAISE. Each type has a unique single-word name (like MISO, SAFFRON, PORTER, or EMBER), its own character mascot, and a distinct sensory profile across 6 dimensions.

Question 5

Is the taste personality test scientifically accurate?

Accepted Answer

SMAKO™ is grounded in 12 peer-reviewed studies from journals including Scientific Reports, Nutrients, and Appetite. The 6 dimensions are based on established sensory science: TAS2R38 bitter taste genetics (Ong et al. 2018, N=438,870), food neophobia personality traits (Pliner & Hobden 1992), cross-domain taste clustering (Gervis et al. 2022), and oral texture sensitivity research. 25% of the population are supertasters who perceive bitterness at 2x intensity — SMAKO™ measures this as the Sensitivity dimension.

Question 6

What can I do with my SMAKO™ type?

Accepted Answer

Your SMAKO™ type unlocks a personalized taste profile including: your top cuisine matches ranked by compatibility across 14 global cuisines, food predictions (comfort style, hot take, dessert preference, noodle take), a collectible character card you can share, taste compatibility comparison with friends and family, and a group dining tool that finds cuisines that work for everyone based on combined taste types.

Finally understand
how you taste.

You know what you love.
You just can't explain it yet.

One word. Yours forever.

Friends finally make sense.

The group dinner, solved.

Everyone has a taste.
What's yours?

8 Taste Families

Three minutes.
One word. Yours.

Answer 24 questions

Meet your flavour character

Compare, share, find your people.

Your character, in your pocket.

64 characters. One is yours.

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Profile

Taste Predictions

Your crew is forming.

Theirs.
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Finally understand how you taste.

You know what you love. You just can't explain it yet.