pretaste

pre- +‎ taste

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.

pretaste (third-person singular simple present pretastes, present participle pretasting, simple past and past participle pretasted)

1. To take a previous or initial taste.

• Tarpetes, prestate, rapettes, tapester