Research has shown that the appearance of food can dramatically affect how it tastes. In one study, participants ate a plate of normal-looking steak and French fries. All the participants said they enjoyed the food, and it tasted fine.
However, when the lights were brightened, it was revealed that the steak was dyed blue, and the fries were dyed green. When they saw this, many of the participants refused to eat any more of the food, and a few even grew sick! In this experiment, you will explore how the appearance of the food we eat affects how it tastes.
Do not worry—there will not be any blue steaks! There are special considerations when designing an experiment involving human subjects. Consult the rules and regulations of the science fair that you are entering, prior to performing experiments or surveys. If you are working with minors, you must get advance permission from the children's parents or guardians and teachers if you are performing the test while they are in school to make sure that it is all right for the children to participate in the science fair project.
Here are suggested guidelines for obtaining permission for working with minors:. Note: It is important that your volunteers do not know that there is apple juice in each cup! The idea is that your volunteer should expect something different in each cup. Therefore, do not let them see you prepare the drinks ahead of time! Science Buddies materials are free for everyone to use, thanks to the support of our sponsors.
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Menu Science Projects. Project Guides. View Site Map. Science Projects. Grade Levels. Physical Science. Earth and Environmental Science. Behavioral and Social Science. Does Color Affect Taste? Share your story with Science Buddies! Color did not affect the perceived sweetness of the drink and did not affect the drink's ability to quench thirst. Color did affect flavor intensity, especially in the older group. Subjects reported that drinks with more red color tasted stronger.
Color did affect flavor quality how "true" it tested like cherry. Color did affect overall acceptability of the drink how much people liked the drink. Changes in color made people think the flavor of the drink was different. For example, if the cherry-flavored drink was colored orange or yellow, people thought it was an orange drink or fruit punch drink.
Roth, H. Subjects were between years old. Five different sweetness levels and five different colors of lemon and lime drinks were used. As the color of a drink became more intense, people reported that the drink became more sweet.
DuBose C. Journal of Food Science , , , Subjects tasted grape, lemon-lime, cherry and orange drinks with different colors. When subjects tasted the drinks and were able to see the "correct" colors of the drinks, they were always able to identify the taste of the drink correctly.
However, when they could not see the color of the drink, they made mistakes see table. DuBose et al. The cherry, lemon-lime and orange drinks and a "no-flavor" drink were colored either red, orange, green or given no color.
Also, a solid food was tested: a white cake with added yellow coloring and lemon flavor. Flavor Indentification: it was easier for the subjects to identify the correct flavor when the drink had the expected color. People made errors toward the taste that were expected for a particular color.
For example, an orange-colored drink that was really cherry-flavored was often thought to taste like an orange drink; a green colored cherry drink would taste like lime. Acceptability: As the intensity of the color increased, the "acceptability" for the cherry and orange drinks went up. However, if there was too much color, people did not like the drinks.
Flavor Intensity: subjects thought that the drinks with more color tasted stronger. If the cake had no added lemon flavoring, the yellow color made the cake more acceptible.
People did not like too much yellow color in the cake. Cakes with more yellow coloring were thought to have more lemon flavoring. Johnson, J. Test subjects were between years old. Five different sucrose sugar solutions and five different intensities of red were used. Chan, M. Hoegg and Alba measured what influenced people's perceptions by changing the color of orange juice, changing the sweetness, or by labeling the glasses with brand and quality information.
While brand name influenced some people's preferences for one cup of juice over another, they found that merely labeling one cup a premium brand and the other an inexpensive store brand did not affect perceptions of taste. However, the same wasn't right when it came to the color of the orange juice. The color had a significant effect on the taster's perception of taste.
As the authors put it: "color dominated taste. However, when given two glasses of orange juice that were the same color, with one cup sweetened with sugar, the same people failed to perceive taste differences.
This video is from the Scientific American vlog. In it, they take a look at how our vision can affect our taste perception. How what we see can sometimes override what we think we taste.
Then they played with the color of food from wine to cheese to soft drinks, to show how our palates can be tricked into thinking we taste things that aren't necessarily there. Color Meaning. Color Psychology. Color Theory.
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