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CHEM&110 Chemical Concepts Activity 1: Scientific Cooking Date: 1/27/23 Please describe your experiment by identifying the following: 1. My observation/question/problem to solve: Does color affect taste? Do you prefer certain types of foods that are a certain color? Do you associate that color with that flavor? 2. My hypothesis: I think that color allows for people to “imagine” flavor. For example, the Fruit Loops theory; the colors aren’t different flavors, but people associate each color with different flavors. I think that the colored apple juice will be the “preferred” juice. 3. Research: Is there any research you did on this? If so, describe what you learned and include your sources. kidshealth.org – What Are Taste Buds? Taste buds are the sensory organ on the tongue. The nose sends messages to your brain through cells to let you know more about the flavor. 4. Independent Variable: Color of juice 5. Dependent Variable: Preferred taste 6. Controlled Variables: Apple juice 7. Experimental Design – briefly describe what your experiment is. I will have volunteers drink different colored apple juice then they will pick their favorite- colored juice. 8. Results: In a few sentences, describe what your findings are and include a photo to show how it turned out! Include any other data you'd like to add, including graphs. Rating System: 1-4 (4 being the “favorite” and 1 being the “least favorite”) Cup - Color Volunteer 1 Volunteer 2 Volunteer 3 Volunteer 4 Total A – Blue 3 3 1 4 11 B – Green 4 4 3 3 14 C – Red 1 2 2 1 6 D – Yellow (Apple Juice) 2 1 4 2 9 My results matched my hypothesis; Cup B (green colored apple juice) was the “most favorable” apple juice. Cup C (red colored apple juice) was the “least favorable” apple juice. Although the volunteers figured out it was apple juice they were drinking, they proved my hypothesis because they chose based on the colored they liked the most. Volunteer 1 said, “Cup A tasted a bit like grape juice, Cup B and D tasted like apple juice, and Cup C tasted a bit like fruit punch.”
9. Analysis: Based on your results, did your experiment support your hypothesis, or not? Explain briefly. My experiment did support my hypothesis; The colored apple juice was the preferred juice. The volunteers were able to figure out that they were drinking different colored apple juice quite quickly, but when asked to pick their favorite, they became very determined to figure out which colored apple juice was their favorite. The volunteers also told them how each one tasted different from another; “The blue one tasted a bit diluted.” My result to my experiment was that people will choose a preferred color over taste. 10. Is there anything else you would add about your experiment? What did you learn from it? Was there anything that surprised you, or things that went wrong? Anything you would change for the next time you do it? If I were to do this experiment again, I would restrain smell and have the volunteers drink different types of drinks without the ability to smell the drinks, because smell is also a factor to taste (one of my volunteers smelled the drink before drinking the juice, to figure out what it was before tasting it).
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