Blind Taste Testing 😋🤔

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

Method:

Research:

    

Equipment:

• Food (Mystery)
• Hands 
• Blindfold
• Popsicle stick

Instructions:

1. Wash your hands thoroughly with water and soap. 
2. Get all of the equipment required.
3. Close your eyes and put your blindfold on.
4. Collect your food and eat it.
5. Block/pinch your nose with a hand and eat the food.
6. Unblock/un-pinch your nose and try to guess the food in your mouth.

Results:

Here are the videos without being blind folded:

This is the first taste test: 

Here is the second video:

Here is the third video:

Here is the Fourth one:

Here are the videos with a blindfold on:

Here is the 5th one:

Here is the 6th one:

I forgot to film the 7th one.

Here is the 8th one:

Here is a spread sheet I filled out:

First taste	Last taste	Food guess
Sweet	Sweet	Salt
Salty	Bland	Salt
Biter	Biter	Icing sugar
Lemon	Sour	Citric Acid
Salty	Pickles	Pickles
Tasteless	Bland	I dont know
Chrunchy	Sweet	Apple
Crunchy	fruity	Pear
Tasteless	Sweet	Burger ring
Stale	Burger ring	Burger ring
Sweet, chewy	Sour	Sour coca cola bottle lolly

Discussion:

How do you taste food?

 

Food is tasted from the taste buds located on your tongue. There are many different types of taste buds and that is how you taste sour, sweet, bitter or salty. When you taste something sweet your taste buds send messages to your brain about what type of food is and what is tastes like. 

What are the different tastes?

There are four main different types of tastes they are : sour, salt, bitter and sweet. The three other tastes are umami which is savoury, astringent and pungent. 

Where are the different taste buds on your tongue?

In the front of your tongue is the sweet taste buds, salty and sour are on the sides of your tongue and bitter is in the back.

Does smell affect your taste?

Yes smell does affect the taste of food. Most of the time people judge food by the smell and that can affect the taste. As well as that about 80% of smell is what is responsible for what food tastes like.