Interactives
FoodLab
KS 3/4 Food Technology
This program contains a series of activities to help students investigate our sense of taste and sensory analysis in the food industry.
- Our 5 senses - touch, taste, hearing, smell and sight.
- Our sense of taste - sweet, salt, sour and bitter.
- Describing words - sensory, attitudinal and hedonic descriptors.
- Sensory descriptors - texture, appearance, flavour and aroma.
- Taste tests - sensory analysis in the food industry.
- Star diagram - comparing the sensory characteristics of products.
- Balanced plate - identifying the 5 food groups.