Hyper · Trove preset
Designed for wholesale shopping, with bulk order lists and pricing tools for business customers.
5 presets Food and drink Home Beauty Electronics Clothing
★ 99% · 522 reviews
$ 400,00
How fast is Taste?
Google PageSpeed Insights scores for the home page, out of 100
In our October 2026 test, the official Taste demo scored 75/100 on mobile and 96/100 on desktop. On mobile, LCP was 5.2s, CLS 0.06 and Total Blocking Time 27ms.
Theme demo store
Official Taste demo, home page 75 /100
Mobile
Needs improvement
96 /100
Desktop
Good
Tested Oct 2026 · Google PageSpeed Insights lab data
| Metric | Mobile | Desktop |
|---|---|---|
| Largest Contentful Paint | 5.2s | 1.2s |
| Cumulative Layout Shift | 0.06 | 0.07 |
| Total Blocking Time | 27ms | 9ms |
| Speed Index | 3.8s | 604ms |
The 8 live stores we tested averaged 35/100 on mobile and 56/100 on desktop. Average mobile LCP was 17.1s and CLS was 0.04. These results reflect complete production stores, not the theme alone.
Live stores average
Mean across 8 stores running Taste 35 /100
Mobile
Poor
56 /100
Desktop
Needs improvement
Tested Oct 2026 · Results include each store's apps, images, tracking scripts and customizations
| Metric | Mobile | Desktop |
|---|---|---|
| Largest Contentful Paint | 17.1s | 2.6s |
| Cumulative Layout Shift | 0.04 | 0.12 |
| Total Blocking Time | 1.6s | 948ms |
| Speed Index | 12.6s | 3.3s |
Per-store results
8 live stores · tested Oct 2026Tracked over time
Features
Built-in features listed on the Theme Store.
Cart and checkout
- Cart notes
- In-store pickups
- Quick buy
Marketing and conversion
- Blogs
- Cross-selling
- FAQ page
- Press coverage
- Promo banners
- Recommended products
Merchandising
- Color swatches
- High-resolution images
- Image galleries
- Image rollover
- Image zoom
- Ingredients or nutritional information
- Lookbooks
- Product options
- Product videos
- Shipping/delivery information
- Size chart
- Slideshow
- Usage information
Product discovery
- Enhanced search
- Mega menu
- Product filtering and sorting
- Recommended products
- Sticky header
- Swatch filters
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27 features
Taste ranking and satisfaction
Position among all Shopify themes
#1116 of 1349
Position among Shopify themes for "food and drink"
#105 of 112
Overall satisfaction based on all reviews
50% positive
Examples of Shopify stores using the Taste theme
A sample of live Shopify stores where the Taste theme has been detected.
Herb Pharm
www.herb-pharm.com
United States Visit
Strawberry Milk Mob
strawberrymilkmob.com
Liechtenstein Visit
FemiClear
femiclear.com
United States Visit
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inhhair.com
United States Visit
Mozi Wash
www.moziwash.com
United States Visit
Tea Drops
www.myteadrop.com
United States Visit
GAME CHANGERS
gamechanger.la
United States Visit
SIGNAL+POWER
www.signalandpower.com
United States Visit
Humby Organics
humbyorganics.com
United States Visit
Thumper Fab
thumperfab.com
United States Visit
The Henna Guys
www.thehennaguys.com
United States Visit
Limitless Walls
www.limitlesswalls.com
United States Visit
Release history
LATEST VERSION
v16.1.0
Released October 9, 2026
Moderately active
Taste has received 4 updates in the last 12 months.
Releases in 12 mo 4
Total releases 24
First release February 28, 2022
v16.1.0 FEATURE
Product disclosures now only show to buyers in the jurisdictions they apply to. For example, a California-only disclosure no longer appears for online shoppers in other locations.
Added
- Product disclosures are filtered by buyer jurisdiction
Changed
- Updated snippet files to use LiquidDoc syntax
Fixes and improvements
- Improve disclosure icons display in carts and provide a fallback symbol when none is provided
v16.0.0 MAJOR
Updates the header to use Shopify's customer account experience, adds a Customer accounts theme setting, and removes the legacy customer account pages.
Removed
- Important: [Customer accounts] Removed the legacy customer account templates and sections. Stores on legacy customer accounts must upgrade to new customer accounts before publishing this version. See information on upgrading to customer accounts from legacy customer accounts
Added
- [Customer accounts] New Customer accounts theme setting with a Menu setting for the customer account popover.
Changed
- [Customer accounts] The header account icon now opens Shopify's customer account popover instead of a separate login page.
Fixes and improvements
- [Mobile menu] Country/region and language selectors now respect their Header section settings, matching the desktop header.
- [Mobile menu] Fixed footer spacing when social links aren't shown.
v15.5.0 FEATURE
Adds support for standard storefront events and a new section and block to display product disclosures.
Added
- [Storefront Events & Actions] Added support for app, agent, and AI cart interactions without page reloads.
- [Product disclosures] New section and block to display product disclosures on product pages.
Fixes and improvements
- [Accessibility] Fixed aria labels and focus management on search and filtering components
- [Performance] Changed body layout styles for improved cumulative layout shift (CLS)
- Fixed missing theme setting translation strings in "Icons with Text" section
v15.4.1 FIX
Taste 15.4.1 introduces improvements for performance monitoring.
v15.4.0 FEATURE
Taste 15.4.0 introduces support for nested cart lines, accessibility improvements, performance enhancements, and bug fixes.
Added
- Added support for nested cart lines. Cart now properly displays nested items( like product add-ons) with improved styling and accessibility labels
- Improved accessibility with added ARIA labels for product quantity inputs
Changed
- Improved performance by removing lazy loading of images above the fold in the Featured collection section
What merchants say about Taste Shopify theme
Merchant sentiment summary
AI7 of 14 reviews are positive, with 5 neutral and 2 negative. Merchants most often praise its ease of use, stability, customisation options and layouts, and value as a free theme. Recurring criticisms include limits on the blog layout, missing checkout delivery-instructions field, and mobile image scaling; none are described as resolved.
Generated from all 14 Theme Store reviews ·
Positive 7 · 50%
Neutral 5 · 36%
Negative 2 · 14%
Mixed reviews
Taste has received 4 reviews in the last 12 months.
Reviews in 12 mo 4
Total reviews 14
First review
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