Apples Taste Test!

Did you know there are over 7,500 different types of apples! Each variety has its own appearance and taste. The top 5 most common apples in the US are Gala, Red Delicious, Fuji, Granny Smith, and Honeycrisp. Red Delicious and Granny Smith are two apples that both look very different as well as taste very different.

Granny Smith apples are known to be vary tart, while Fuji tend to be very sweet. In this activity, we are going to test the palate in a blind taste-test!

 

Materials

  • Sharpie

  • 2 small cups

  • Fuji apple, peeled and cut up

  • Granny Smith apple, peeled and cut up

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Directions:

  1. Label the cups with the numbers 1 and 2. On the bottom, put "GS" for Granny Smith on one cup and "F" for Fuji on the bottom of the other cup. Put the cut-up apple in their respective cups

  2. Ask 20 people to sample a piece of apple from each cup.

  3. Ask them if the apple they ate was sour or sweet. Tally their response on the Blind Taste Worksheet

  4. Be sure they have a sip of water or wait a couple of minutes between each apple sample to reset their taste buds.

  5. At the end, count up the tallies. Then flip over the cups to reveal which apple people thought was sweet and which was sour

Apple LabNatasha ChlebuchPsychology, Taste, Senses