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Using Our Senses Tuning in to Flavour When we think offood, what are the words that come quickly to mind? Have pupils brainstorm food words for five minutes and display as a list. Now have pupils concentrate on flavour words and make a list of adjectives that describe the flavours of food, eg delicious - sweet - sour
Have pupils list their favourite fruit/s and write short statements describing what they particularly like about the fruit/s • Pupils identify and list the five senses, eg sight, sound, feel, smell, taste • Which of the senses do they most use or think are the most important when choosing a piece of fruit to eat? • Can fruit have a sound? (imagine an apple without a crunch) Challenge pupils to come up with other fruit sound words. About Taste Just how do we taste things?
Photocopy off the copymaster above Explain that there are only four basic tastes that we are capable of detecting and the ‘receptors’ for these tastes are concentrated in different parts of the tongue. Prepare food samples for a blindfold tasting representing the four tastes sweet honey, jam, apple
salt salami, cheese, vegemite
Record results. Take the test again but have pupils hold their nose. Compare the results. Before clearing away samples, have pupils experiment with the food and try and identify the different taste zones on their tongues.
Explain to the pupils that taste is really a combination of several senses including smell and the feel of the food in the mouth. Pupils experiment by smelling a piece of apple while eating a piece of potato. Did it taste like apple? What gave the show away (the feel in the mouth)? What can the pupils now say about how they choose any food or drink to consume. Discuss and come up with a list of factors they would consider, eg
let’s get really creative At the Advertising Agency Explain to the pupils that many firms and companies
will go to an advertising agency when they have anew product to launch. At the agency
there will be a group of people who are known as the ‘creatives’. They will have
the task of making the product as appealing as possible to the public. It must be
so appealing that people will want to buy it.
The creative team must take into account the following…
Creative teams make presentations to the class who evaluate it using the above criteria. Creative tasting notes Some of the ‘most creative’ and often unintelligible writing about taste can be found in wine reviews. Most lifestyle magazines include these reviews, eg Listener, North & South … Have pupils find, read and share some of the most descriptive gems from these reviews, eg
After reading the notes aloud, challenge other pupils to identify which drink was being described. |
The Greggs and Refresh team have developed several new jelly
and powdered drink flavours that they know will be popular during the summer.
Each group in the class becomes a ‘creative team’that is responsible
for one new jelly or drink.