Sense Of Taste Experiment

Research Question Does the colour of food alter the sense of taste of students in Sagewood College?

Research hypothesis

The sense of taste of students in Sagewood college will be altered by the colour of the food.

Context of research

In order to conduct my research, I will be carrying out a scientific experiment to practically investigate the research topic. The five senses have always been an interesting concept to gather knowledge on. It has always been known certain senses are interconnected or work hand in hand with each other such as the sense of sight and the sense of hearing or the sense of taste and the sense of smell. The purpose of my research is to investigate whether the sense of taste is altered by the sense of sight on the basis

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• To find out whether different colours have similar or different effects on the sense of taste for different people

Outline of Scope of research

I will conduct my research by conducting a scientific experiment. In this experiment, I will be allowing my sample size to taste foods, which I will dye with food colouring, in order to assess whether the people I am conducting the experiment on taste the foods for what they really are or does the perception of their taste rely on the colour of the foods.

Limitations of Research

The only limitation to my research is that I will not be able to collect information on other factors which affect the sense of taste and are unable to be determined at school level. For example, psychological factors. Since I will be using a standard beverage of a mango flavour, If a person has already a bad taste associated to mango or even to a certain colour of a beverage, for example not liking orange coloured beverages, then, the person will most likely have a biased perception to my experiment. This will affect my results as they will not be completely

The article discusses how the colour of food may not be the main factor in determining the taste of a food although it does have influence over the taste of a food. The article also provides information on how food companies actually utilise this concept of colour and perception of taste in order to manipulate consumers to buy their products.

This article supports my research hypothesis, as it’s essential argument is that as a human being, you do ”eat with your eyes”. What this means is that the sense of taste is strongly linked to the appearance of food, mainly the colour of the food. According to Konica Molta (2017), without the “visual cues” or the appearance in colour of a food, taste buds would be confused and would not be able to identify certain tastes in foods. In my research experiment I will be assessing whether this is true or not by changing the colours of certain foods and analysing the response of the