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Thursday, 4 November 2021

Blind Taste Testing

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

Research:



Method:

Equipment:

  • Mystery food
  • Blind fold
  • Popsicle Stick
Instructions:
  1. Get your equipment.
  2. Wash your hands.
  3. Put on your blindfold.
  4. Pinch your nose.
  5. Get your food and eat it.
  6. Unblock your nose.
Results:
mysteryFirst TasteLast TasteFood Guess
Sweet middlesweet with soursugar
Salty Front Tonguecrunchysalt
Bitter Back TongueSweet And fruitybaking powder
Sour side tongueYummycitric acid
Hard then softpickle
crunchyraw potato
Hard then softapple
Pear
Marshmellow
burger ring
lolly

Discussion:
How do you taste food:
The taste buds pick up clues about how food tastes and send messages about it to your brain along special wires called nerves. To taste something properly, you need to chew food into small pieces and have a lot of drool, or saliva. This helps the flavor molecules (also known as “tastants”) reach your taste buds.
What are the different taste buds of our tongue: Taste buds contain the taste receptor cells, which are also known as gustatory cells. The taste receptors are located around the small structures known as papillae found on the upper surface of the tongue, soft palate, upper esophagus, cheek, and epiglottis.
Does smell affect your taste:
Our sense of smell is responsible for about 80% of what we taste. Without our sense of smell, our sense of taste is limited to only five distinct sensations: sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and the newly discovered “umami” or savory sensation. All other flavors that we experience come from the smell.


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