Blind Taste Testing Challenge 🙈 🍊🍇

Aim: 

I want to find out if food taste differently when you can't see or smell the food your eating.

Research:

Method:

Equipment:

• Blindfold
• Mystery Food
• Popsicle stick

Instruction:

1. Get all Equipment.
2. Wash hands.
3. Put on your blindfold.
4. With one hand pinch your nose.
5. With the other hand have your hand out and wait for the unknown food.
6. Get your food and eat it.
7. Unblock your nose and see if the tastes are different.

Results:

Unknown Food	Blindfold taste	without nose blocked	Food Guess
1	sweet	sweet	sugar
2	salty	I tasted it at the back of my tongue the most	salt
3	bitter	it taste bad bad bad bad bad bad	something bitter
4	lemon	sour, and sweet	citric acid
5	salty, bitter	pickle	pickle
6	crunchy, bitter	starch	raw potato
7	crunchy sweet	sweet	apple
8	sweet, crumbly	rotten	pear
9	feels like chalk	sweet, powdery	marsh mallow
10	taste like crisp	taste like pickle	burger ring
11	sour sweet yummy	orange	orange gummy lollie

Discussion:

How do you taste food? Your taste buds on your tongue are very small. some of your taste buds can only detect one kind of taste some taste buds can taste all kind of different taste.

What are the different taste? 

Sweet, sour, bitter, salty or uman which is like a meaty taste that you enjoy to eat. Like what you taste when you eat your favourite meal kind, of like tasting a juicy rich, flavour.