1. Eating with your Senses!

2. Trying new foods You will try many different foods during your life
Use multiple senses:
Taste
Smell
Sight
Touch

3. Trying new foods Evaluate foods based on: Appearance—sight
Texture—touch
Flavor—smell (aroma) and taste

4. Tasting
Salty
Sweet
Sour
Umami
Bitter

5. Tasting Taste Buds You have 10,000!! Bitter Taste-sensitive zones Sour
Salty
Sweet

6. Keep trying different foods!
Taste buds are modified "skin-like" cells, with a life span of approximately seven days.

7. Tasting Method Taste a product in small amounts
Allow food to touch entire tongue
Cleanse palate with water between tastings
Concentrate on what you are tasting

8. Why are you
eating that?

9. Food Choices
Personal Preference
Habit
Ethnic Heritage
Tradition

10. Food Choices Social settings Convenience Associations
Emotional Comfort

11. Food Choices
Values
Body Weight
Mom or dad told me to!
Nutrition
Meat

12. Savvy tasters!

13. Picky Eaters! Nibble and walk away Wait for 24 hours
If sick, avoid the food
True survivors

14. How human taste evolved
Taste and smell help us identify
acidity→spoilage
bitterness→poison
saltiness→tasty
sweetness→YUM!