Taste Bud Experiment

Taste Bud Test

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
have the opportunity to inspect food and drink visually before deciding on whether or not to buy or taste it. Indeed, it has long been recognized that colour constitutes one of the most salient of visual cues concerning the likely sensory properties (for example, taste/flavour) of that which we are about to eat or drink”. This is something that many people don't know that they do before eating or tasting a food is inspecting it to see what and how it looks.
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
later in life adult. My hypothesis before the experiment was that no matter what age the drink would be consumed and the color would have been able to change the mind of anyone that is drinking the liquid that was given to them. As i thought about the experiment before i had tested anyone in was thinking if you see something red the first thing someone will think of for the taste will be cherry or strawberry as in if you would pick up a red gatorade you're going to be thinking along the same lines of a cherry or strawberry flavor when you consume the drink but i was wrong with my thinking. The ages of the test subjects my group had tested was 5 to 6 year olds and 16 to 19 year old both at southern wells school but a group of highschoolers and a group of beginning elementary students.
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
the same question was asked after every drink and that is “what do you think this drink taste like?” . After the participants drank the drinks and filled the sheets out the sheets were collected for data put on a table later. The most incorrect out of all of them i believe is blue many people couldn't give a right answer for blue and red was one of the most correct color many people believed that red was tasting like cherry.

As you can tell by the graph above females have the ability to make the right decision more than males. Males were leaning more of thinking the liquid that we tested them with that was something else. The age of the test subjects did range from younger children to high schools but the evidence stays the same. All of the liquids where that same the only difference is that the food color changed with every color of drink the same apple juices was in all of the same cups. The test was proved to be wrong the older you are the more ability your mind is to change its mind after judging what is in front of you to taste.