taste

What's your favorite food?
* sweet
* sour
* salty
* bitter
Have counter count how many people like each.

1. What are the four familiar tastes?
   
2. What part of the body do we use to taste?
3. Fifth flavor, "Umami." Cheese is an example of Umami.
4. other things about food -- spicy, temperature, color, smell
   

Food you absolutly hate. What do you hate about it?
Have counter count qualities.

Going to be looking at taste. Will be using flavors on a cotton swab... don't mix and don't share.
Have four students demo how the taste test is done and how it's mapped. These become helpers at stations.

Can you taste the same thing in all areas of the tongue? Sweet, salty, sour, bitter. Bumps on tongue are taste buds and some get replaced every 24 hours! It was once thought that you could taste things only in one area. Is this true?

3. Using your map, point to the places on your tongue where you would most likely taste a candy bar, potato chips, lemon juice, and a grapefruit peel.

bitter medicine -- people spit it out. If you put sugar in, is the bitter still there? Why would they tell us to put aspirin on the front of the tongue before swallowing it?

1. What does the sense of taste teach you about the world we live in?
   
2. How does taste help us select and enjoy food?
3. What would happen to you without the sense of taste?
   

food coloring... paint your tongue front with blue food coloring. Place wax paper on tip of tongue. Count the number of unstained circles. the more of those you have the more fungiform tastebuds you have. This is why some people can't eat certain foods. Changes as you get older.

1. Describe how the sense of taste and the sense of smell are related.
   
2. What are some things that should not be tasted

Perfumes (which is which?) artificial flavor.

Smell-a-drink (coke and pepsi and diet coke) Which is which?
making gum drops?

Nose pinch and blindfolded smell of coke and pepsi and diet coke.