TASTE TESTING WITHOUT SMELL

WE NEED:

• A small piece of peeled potato.
• A small piece of peeled apple (same shape as the potato so you can't tell the difference)

HOW TO DO IT:

1. Close your eyes.
2. Mix up the piece of apple and the piece of potato.
3. Hold your nose.
4. Eat each piece, can you tell the difference?

PREDICTIONS:
We think that we are going to recognise the apple and the potato.



PROCESS:

RESULTS:
Some of us could recognise the food, but others couldn't!

Your nose and mouth are connected through the same airway, which means that you taste and smell the food at the same time. 

Your sense of  taste can recognize salty, sweet, bitter and sour. When you combine this with your sense of smell you can recognise many other individual 'tastes'. Take away your smell (and sight) and you limit your brain's ability to tell the difference between certain foods.

MOUTH: SENSE OF TASTE (salty, sweet, bitter and sour)

+

NOSE: SENSE OF SMELL

=

A LOT OF TASTES

MOUTH

-

NOSE

=

DIFFICULT TO DIFFERENTIATE SIMILAR TASTES

MY OPINION:

I liked it very much because it has been fun and I laughed a lot.

BY: ALBA