Blind Taste Testing

 Aim:

I want to find out how we taste food.

Research:

If you look at your tongue in the mirror, you can see it's covered in little bumps. And in those bumps are taste buds. When you put something in your mouth, they send a message to your brain to give you information about whether the food is salty, sweet, sour, bitter or umami (a meaty, savoury taste) Back of the tongue extra sensitive and bitter just in case you taste something poisonous 

So, technically speaking, spiciness is not a taste because it is not produced by taste buds and the nerve that carries the "spicy" signals to the brain is the trigeminal nerve

Method:

Equipment -

• Unknown food
• Blindfold
• Person With A Tongue

Instructions :

1. Get your equipment
2. Put your blindfold on 
3. Block your nose 
4. Put the food in your mouth and taste it
5. Describe how it taste
6. Release your nose and describe it

Result: 

#1 it felt wet and taste sweet and crunchie and juicy - Apple

#2 No flavor at the start then when I unblocked my nose it taste bitter & sweet at the same time - Onion

#3 Wet no flavour at the start, plain with a bit of a bitter flavour - Potato

#4 Tasted like pineapple but was actually a lemon, sweet at first - Sugar Lolly

#5 It's sweet but you can feel the salt - Lime Flavour Sour Lolly

#6 Sweet, same taste through out - Sugar

#7 Salty, same taste through out - Salt

#8 Powdery & Salt - Baking Power

#9 Sour & Bitter at the same time with a sweet after taste - Citrus 

 Acid

#10 Powdery & Sour - All of those mixed together

Conclusion:

My conclusion is that you can taste better when you can breath...

Thank you, see you next time!