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Taste Bud Experiment
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The experiment that my group had gave was from the age groups of 19 to 17 year old and from 5 and 6 year olds. What my group was testing in this experiment is that if a color of a drink will change what you think the drink will taste like such as if you have a red drink in front of you your brain might think that this drink is going to taste like a cherry or strawberry maybe even watermelon. Some priar researh that has been done is https://flavourjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13411-015-0031-3 is one of the websites i have looked at to see who and what all people have been using this information to see and study from. As you read in the article of this website it says “under most everyday conditions , consumers
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This experiment tested a wide range of people young aged 5-11 and 11-14 year old middle aged 18-22 and a later in life group from 60-75 and what this experiment showed is in a younger child the color of the drink had a higher impact than a middle aged adult or even a …show more content…
The only two genders that we had tested were male and female with four different colored drinks. The color of the drinks that were served to the people in the experiment where Red, Blue,Green ,Orange but little did the people know drinking this is all of these drinks where apple juice that was watered down with food coloring to make our four colored drinks. As the participants came out to be tested there would be a sheet the participants would have to fill out after each color they had drank to make sure they didn't get a flavor wrong if they had drink two at the same time. One at a time as each participant would drink their drink they would have four choices for each of the colored drinks Reds flavors were cherry ,watermelon ,strawberry and every frink had the option other if they had tasted something else in anyone of the drinks consumed. Greens flavors where kiwi, lemon lime, pear and Oranges flavors were Orange ,pear and pineapple the last flavor that was tested is Blue and the flavors for drink are Rasberry, Blueberry and tropical punch. By making all these colors in there own categories with their own flavors this made the sheet each participant given easy to fill out and ability to have everyone fill what they thought without telling the other. As they consumed this drink

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