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Ice cream
Ice cream
Blind
Tongue Tied
Tasty :p
Showtime
100
Which sense is primarily responsible for experiencing the flavor of ice cream?
Sense of taste
100
Daily double!!!
How many original flavors of skittles did we sample?
100 pts for each correct answer, 500 pts possible
5- Grape, Lime, Strawberry, Lemon, orange
100
What is the tip of the tongue called?
The Apex
100
What region is depicted by the color brown?
Sweet
100
What evolutionary purpose does the sense of taste serve?
To identify nutrients and energy, and detect toxins
200
Adding salt to ice lowers its ______________ point, allowing the ice cream mixture to freeze.
Freezing point
200
Name one reason why taste and smell are connected.
Because the nose and throat essentially share the same airway, chewing some foods allows aromas to get the nose through the back of the mouth even when the nostrils are closed.
200
What are our sensory receptors for our sense of taste?
Taste buds
200
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!
What are the main types of taste?
200pts for each correct answer 1,000 pts possible
sweet, sour, bitter, salty and umami
200
According to Dr. Dana Small, how do taste and flavor differ?
Taste is sweet, sour, salty, bitter, or savory, while flavor is a multisensory perception
300
How much milk did we add to our ice cream mixture?
1/4cup
300
What did adding the blindfold do to our perception of the skittles flavor?
Changed/ deceived it
300
Aside from helping us taste food, what else does our tongue do for us?
It moves the food around the mouth to help with chewing and swallowing. It also helps produce sounds when speaking and keeps the airway open when breathing.
300
What region is depicted by the color yellow?
sour
300
What is the optimal temperature to extrude ice cream?
15 degrees Fahrenheit
400
What other sense do we use to detect flavor?
Our sense of taste
400
What were the Halloween skittle flavors?
Citrus Scream, Ghoulish Green Apple, Shocking Lime and Spine-Tingling Tangerine (we thought mango).
Our list: green apple, mango, and sour
400
What are the microscopic hair-like projections on our tongues called?
taste hairs or microvilli
400
What region is depicted by the color green?
bitter
400
What process does liquid nitrogen speed up when making ice cream?
Freezing the ice cream
500
Is FREEZING a chemical or physical change
physical
500
What is a variable in an experiment?
A variable is anything that can change or be changed. In other words, it is any factor that can be manipulated, controlled for, or measured in an experiment
500
Chemicals in food dissolve in ______________ before interacting with taste receptors.
Saliva, or spit
500
According to one of the videos we watched, why do scientist think that the taste regions are invalid?
Because they believe that the entire tongue can detect all types of taste.
500
How can immersive technologies change food perception?
By influencing what people like through context