Easy taste test science activities for early learners.

📚 Quick Study Guide

• 👅 Taste is one of our five senses!
• 🍎 We can taste sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and umami.
• 🧪 Taste tests are simple experiments where we try different foods and describe what we taste.
• 📝 We use our sense of taste and our sense of smell together to figure out flavors.
• 💡 Remember to always ask a grown-up before trying any food experiment!

🧪 Practice Quiz

1. Which of these is NOT one of the five basic tastes?
   1. Sweet
   2. Spicy
   3. Salty
   4. Sour
2. What sense works closely with our sense of taste to help us identify flavors?
   1. Hearing
   2. Sight
   3. Smell
   4. Touch
3. If you taste something and it makes you pucker your face, what taste is it likely?
   1. Sweet
   2. Salty
   3. Sour
   4. Bitter
4. Which of these foods is typically associated with a salty taste?
   1. Lemon
   2. Pretzel
   3. Honey
   4. Coffee
5. What should you ALWAYS do before trying a taste test?
   1. Close your eyes
   2. Ask a grown-up
   3. Hold your nose
   4. Spin around three times
6. Umami is often described as a savory or ____ taste.
   1. Fruity
   2. Meaty
   3. Minty
   4. Floral
7. Which part of your body is most important for tasting?
   1. Eyes
   2. Nose
   3. Tongue
   4. Ears