Blind Taste Testing 👅

 Aim: I want to find out if food tastes differently when you can see or smell.

Research:  Doing disgusting food tasting-------how do you taste food?  🍰

                                                          FUNNY:

SCIENCE:

Method:

Equipment:

1. Unknown food MYSTERY.
2. Blindfold.
3. Popsicle stick.

Instructions:

• Get all of the equipment required.
• Wash your hands.
• Put on your mask over your eyes.
• Block your nose from smelling the food you'll get.
• Put your hands out to collect the food.
• Eat the food.
• Unblock your nose and guess what you ate.

Results:

                                                        sugar FIRST:

                                            salt  SECOND:

baking soda THIRD:

 

Now we will be starting the blindfolded:

It was a pickle FIRST:

It was a potato SECOND:

It was a apple THIRD:

It was a pear FOURTH:

It was marshmallows 5TH:

It was burger rings 4TH:

It was candy 5TH:

Here is the other side of the results:

First taste	Last taste	Food guess
Sweet	Sweet	Sugar
Salty	Sour	Salt
Biter	Biter	Icing sugar
Slimey	Good and tasty	Pickle
with like dirt in it	Hard like an apple	I don't know.
Sweet and fruity	crunchy	apple
Hard and sweet	slimy	Kiwi
Hard and chewy	Chewy	Stale Marsh mellows
Yummy	Yummy	Burger rings
Sweet	Coke flavour	Candy

                                                                   Discussion:

                                                       How do you taste food?:

 taste buds pick up clues about how a food tastes and sends messages about it to your brain along special wires called nerves. To taste something properly, you need to chew food into small pieces and to have a lot of drool, or saliva. This help the flavour molecules (also known as “tastants”) reach your taste buds.

                                                       What are different tastes?:

               Sweet, sour,fruity,slimy,Chewy,Biter,Salty,savoury,meaty,cool,hot,

                              Where are the different taste buds on your tounge?                         Each person has between 5,000 and 10,000 taste buds, most of which are located in papillae — the small rounded bumps on the upper surface of the tongue. Taste buds are also scattered across the roof of the mouth and the back of the throat.