Hey! I am doing a science fair project about coloring food and seeing if people taste it different from regularly colored food. For example, i am going to color some chocolate pudding with flavorless tye-dye food coloring, and have people taste it. Then i am going to have them eat regular chocolate colored pudding. I am going to record if they taste a difference between the two of them, although they are the same flavor. Also, i am going to blindfold them, and have them taste test a certain food. Does anyone know any good URLs for me to find information, or have any good ideas for my project??? Your help is greatly needed! Thanks!!!!!!
2007-11-26 07:23:08 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
this sounds like a great project. Go for it. I did my entire graduate research on food color. I don't know how sophisticated you want to get but there is plenty of research in the scientific literature on how people taste with their eyes.
the only suggestion I have is to use something other than chocolate because it will be very difficult to color chocolate. Try gelatin or beverages like kool aid. Ive also done experiments where the flavor and color don't match. Like lime jello colored red. Or orange flavored Kool aid colored blue.
Good luck.
PhD Food Chemistry and Nutrition
2007-11-26 07:41:50 · answer #1 · answered by skipper 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nope. example;Colored ketchup [green,purple] it taste exactally the same as regular but looks different [and stranger!]
2007-11-26 15:42:42 · answer #2 · answered by semper fi--always faithful<3 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try -
http://www.anythingbutwork.com/psychology/orange.htm
http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=9291
2007-11-26 15:52:49 · answer #3 · answered by Fred3663 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋