What did we do?

We chose eight foods or flavors to use in our taste test: salty water, cinnamon sugar syrup, fresh lime, Brussels sprouts, mild salsa, dry roasted peanuts, onions and candy mints. We chopped each food up separately in a blender, so that the textures would be similar. We gathered five of our friends as taste testers. One at a time, we invited our friends into our tasting kitchen. We had each friend wear colored swim goggles so he or she couldn't recognize the food. First, everyone tasted each food while wearing nose plugs, then they tasted it again without the nose plugs. Each taster told us what flavors they could recognize in each case and tried to identify what the food was. more...