Resources by Flavour Sense Nation
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Resources is this collection explore the the ideas whether or not hearing can have any effect on the texture and taste of food and whether the sound of packaging can influence taste of food.
This set of four activities is based around the sense of smell. Activities support children to understand how the sense of smell is vital to identify flavour and explore how smell can evoke memory. Some of the activities are designed to be carried out using an accompanying kit, although in most cases teachers...
This set of three activities is based around the sense of taste. Activities support children to understand how different parts of the tongue are better for identifying certain tastes, how we inherit the ability to detect certain tastes from our parents and explores the phenomenon of ‘chemethesis’ where certain...
The resources in this collection consider whether or not touch can affect our perception of food.
How can our genes affect what we taste?
In this activity children investigate how our ability to identify certain tastes is inherited from our parents. Using PTC paper strips children test who can detect a strong bitter taste, who can detect a mild bitter taste and who cannot taste anything. This resource has been provided by Flavour Sense Nation
Identifying food from its smell
In this activity children investigate how accurate the sense of smell is in the absence of other cues. Children are given several scents to identify and find that it is harder than they thought. Although the activity has been designed to be used with a kit containing several scents and smelling sticks, a similar...
Taste sensitivity testing
In this activity children investigate how sensitive the tongue is to different tastes. First they devise a way of recording the intensity of each kind of taste, so they can compare the different food that they are provided with. They then taste the different food samples, recording the intensity of each taste. ...
The effect of hearing on the taste and texture of food
In this activity children investigate how sound affects the taste of food. They test how two samples of crisps taste whilst hearing sounds created by various shakers. They then compare results from other children and see what...
What is taste and what is flavour?
In this experiment children explore the importance of smell to identify the flavour of food. Children compare the flavour of a mixture of sugar and cinnamon both while holding their nose and then without holding their nose. This activity has been provided by Flavour Sense Nation.