How to Cleanse the Palate After Eating Fried Food

Fried foods might taste good, but they can leave a bad taste in your mouth.

Eating fried foods can leave a greasy feeling inside your mouth. But at times you cannot brush your teeth to get rid of the slickness from the oil in the food, which is when you need to seek an alternative method to cleanse your palate to refresh your mouth. Cleansing the palate also resets your taste buds to prepare you for the next course in the meal, so you fully enjoy it without the aftertaste of the fried food. Use the same mouth-freshening techniques after eating any greasy or oily food whether it is fried or not. Does this Spark an idea?

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Beer
Lime or lemon wedge
Pickled ginger

Instructions

- 1
  
  Take a sip of beer after eating fried foods. Choose a beer that is slightly bitter if the food was not spicy. Drink a crisp pilsner if you ate spicy fried food, or substitute a sparkling water for the beer if you do not drink alcohol.
- 2
  
  Bite into a lime or lemon wedge or squeeze it into your drink to release an acid that refreshes your palate.
- 3
  
  Eat a piece of pickled ginger to cleanse your mouth, as is traditional in Japan after eating fried foods.
- 4
  
  Repeat sipping or biting palate cleansers until your mouth no longer feels greasy.

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