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Introduction: Taste Buds are sensory organs on your tongue that allow you to experience

tastes that are sweet, sour, bitter, or salty. Before starting, draw a diagram of the taste buds on

your tongue.

Objective: To taste test to discover the role of taste buds and determine whether foods are

sweet, sour, bitter, or salty.

Supplies:

*3-4 foods from each of the following categories (sweet, sour, bitter, or salty); total of 14 foods

*Blindfold

*14 small cups

*Marker

Procedure: Number each cup from 1 to 14. Have a partner put a piece of food into each cup;

recording the actual food on the table provided under results (column 4). While blindfolded,taste the food from Cup 1. Is it salty, sweet, bitter, or sour? Can you identify the food? Have

your partner record your answers and then repeat for Cups 2-14.

Results:

Have your partner record your results on the following table:

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CUP Sweet, Salty, Bitter, or

Sour?

Prediction: What food do

you think it is?

Actual: What was the

food in the cup?

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23

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

Conclusion:

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