What's That Taste?

Purpose: To learn about your sense of taste

Materials

• Apples
• Oranges
• Lemons
• Limes
• Paper plates
• Knife for cutting fruit
• Blindfold for each group
• Napkins

Procedure

1. Group students in pairs.
2. Cut the fruit into small pieces before the activity.
3. For each group, place two pieces of each type of fruit on a paper plate.
4. Have one partner act as the tester and the other partner act as the taster.
5. The tester will blindfold the taster.
6. He/she will then ask the taster to hold his/her nose.
7. He/she will then place a piece of fruit in the taster 's mouth and ask him/her to guess which fruit he/she was given.
8. The tester will record an answer on the Taste Chart.
9. Once all types of fruits have been tested, the partners may change roles and repeat the experiment.
10. Compare answers.
11. Discuss why your sense of taste is not as good as it normally is when you are blindfolded and have taken away the sense of smell.

Taste Chart

Fruit	Guess
Apple
Orange
Lemon
Lime