Blind Taste Test

 Aim: I want to find out if the food tastes different when you can't see or smell.

Research:

Method:

Equipment:

• Food
• Popsicle stick
• Blindfold/Mask. The easy way to make a blindfold is to get glasses and a paper towel

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:

mystery	First Taste	Last Taste	Food Guess
	Sweet middle	sweet with sour	sugar
	Salty Front Tongue	crunchy	salt
	Bitter Back Tongue	Sweet And fruity	baking powder
	Sour side tongue	Yummy	citric acid
		Hard then soft	pickle
		crunchy	raw potato
		Hard then soft	apple
			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.