Blind taste test

 Aim: To taste foods that are sweet, bitter, sour or salty

Equipment

1. Samples 1-9

2. blindfold glasses

3. Recording chart

4. Ice cream stick taster

Method:

1. Get safety glasses and make a blindfold 

2. Set up your chart and make sure that the person you are working with knows where to record your responses. 

3. Using an ice-cream stick you will dip it into the Sample. Once the sample is on the stick you will taste it and tell your partner your response.

4. There will be 2 Answers.

5. At taste test one you need to hold your nose.

Answer 1. Is it sweet, sour, salty, bitter. Record it.

Answer 2. What do you think it is. Record it.

6. Repeat this for the next samples but you will only need to use your ice-cream stick taster for samples 1-4

Blind taste testing results

Sample number	Sweet, sour, bitter, salty.	I think it is…….
Sample 1	Sweet	sugar
Sample 2	Salty	seasalt
Sample 3	Bitter	Baking soda
Sample 4	Sour	Vinegar
Sample 5	Bitter	Potatoe
Sample 6	Sweet	Pineapple Gummy
Sample 7	Sweet & Sour	We don’t know
Sample 8	salty	Onion
Sample 9	Sweet	Apple