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Mmm, That’s Tasty! by Neville Gardner

School Journal June 2012

WALT: Begin to use a range of scientific symbols, conventions, and vocabulary.

SC:      Complete a small science report on the taste + smell experiement

HOME ACTIVITY: Talk to whanau about flavour. What flavours do they like best? Sweet, Sour, Salty, Bitter and Umami (savoury).

Why?

What are their favourite salty, sour, bitter, sweet or savoury foods?

1. There are 5 main flavour receptors. Sweet, Salty, Bitter, Sour and Umami.

List some foods fit each of the flavour receptors.  SHARE

Bitter	Coffee, bear,
Salty	chips, potato chips,
Sour	lemon, sour patch,
Sweet	Lollies, chocolate,
Umami (savoury)	mushroom pies.

2. Record the words you didn’t know before. Add a picture or sentence to describe what they mean.

WORD	MEANING
Papillae (p.26)	"     as food touches the tongue it comes into contact with the sensory papillae
Receptor (p.26 )	receptor recognises sweet,sour,salty,bitter,umami (savory)
texture (p.25)	the texture means what favorite` you like
recognise (p.28)	recognise means that it recognises tastes and information.

3. On Page 29, there is the great jelly bean challenge. Mrs Parker will provide you with some Jelly Beans (or other items) to complete this task. SHARE
   Use the template for a science report below to write what you did, and what you found.

Question: Do our taste buds require smell? yes because if the food touches your throat but you did not swallow it you can taste.

Hypothesis:

when you block your nose and you put something inside your mouth, you can’t taste anything. when your unblock your nose and you put something in your mouth,you can taste the food.

Materials:

• Blindfold
• jellybeans
• pen and paper
• a partner

Procedure:

1. Blindfold yourself
2. Block your nose
3. put jelly bean in your mouth.
4. tell what it taste like
5. unblock your nose
6. uncover your self
7. Record the answer.

Observations:

I closed my eyes and blocked my nose, I put the jelly bean in my mouth and the first flavour I tasted  was pineapple flavour.Then when I unblocked my nose I tasted feijoa and got it right.

Conclusion: My Hypothesis was wrong.