Blind taste testing

Aim: 

I want to find out if food tastes differently when you cant see or smell and don't know what it is. 

How do we taste

Eating something disgusting blindfolded 

 Method:

Equipment:

• blind fold  
• mystery food
• Popsicle stick 
• someone to feed you food

Instructions:

1. wash your hands
2. get all your equipment 
3. put your blind fold
4. block your nose (So you cant smell/taste)
5. put your hand out 
6. eat it and try to guess what it is
7. un block your nose and see what it is

Results: 

unknown food	first taste	Last taste	Food guess
Sugar	NA	Sweet	Sugar
salt	NA	Salty	Salt
Baking powder	NA	Bitter	baking soda
citric Acid	NA	sour	citric acid
Pickle	Salty	Salty and bitter	olive first then pickle
potato	couldn't taste it	kinda bitter	Didn't know
Apple	kinda sweet	sweet and fruity	Apple
pear	bitter sweet soft	sweet fruity	i didnt know what is was called
marshmallow	Hard kinda sweet	sweet	marshmallow
Burger ring	kinda bitter	Meaty	burger ring
sour lollie	sour	sour sweet	sour lollie

Discussion: 

How do you taste food? our taste buds pick up clues about how a food tastes and sends messages about it to your brain along with 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 the different tastes? Sweet, sour,bitter,salty and a new one savoury

does smell affect your taste? Our sense of smell in responsible for about 90% 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 flavours that we experience come from smell.