Sensory Scientists What do Sensory Scientists do? Taste foods (the best part of the job). See if we like the foods. Create new foods.

How do we taste food? 5 Basic Senses: Sweet ? Salty Sour Bitter Umami

How good are your tongues at tasting?? Tasty Experiments How good are your tongues at tasting?? Taste the things on your table and say if the food is sweet, sour, bitter or salty Now following your experiment cards try mixing the flavours and say what they taste like.

Tasting We are now going to taste some foods whilst holding our nose to see if it affects how we taste.

Tasting What would happen if we had no Saliva? Would we be able to taste? Let’s see if we can! Dry our tongues with kitchen roll, taste salt or sugar. Can we taste it?

How do our eyes influence our taste Not just another taste test! We are going to taste different drinks and write down what we think they are; then we will bring all our ideas back to the class.

What have we learnt? Do we know what a Sensory Scientist does? Do we know how we taste our food? Well Done

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