Kai's Science Fair Project

So we forgot about the science fair 'till the last minute. I teased Kai that he would just have to turn in a cup of dirt.

Instead a quick google search gave us a fun, quick idea. Kai did awesome with it. He did all the typing and I helped input the data into the graphs.



Question:
Does the color of food affect whether or not we like the taste? Does it affect what people think
it tastes like?

Hypothesis:
I think that they will choose the color they like best to be their favorite. I also think that they will
taste the yogurt, and guess what it tastes like depending on what color the yogurt is. For
example, if it is yellow, they might think it is lemon flavor.

Procedure:
1: I will get some yogurt and split it evenly into four bowls.
2: I will dye one of them blue, one yellow, one red, and for the last bowl, I will leave it white.
3: I will give someone a bowl, and let them eat each color of the yogurt, then I will have them
tell me what they thought it tasted like and if they liked it.
4: I will do the same thing with the other three bowls.
5. I will ask them what their favorite color and flavor is, and their least favorite.
6. I will have ten people do the experiment.

Items used:
For this project we used:
White vanilla yogurt
Red, Yellow, and Blue food coloring

Results:







Conclusion:
My hypothesis was correct! I found that they think that their favorite flavor and color is usually
their favorite color. I noticed that half of the people who told their favorite flavor, chose blue.
Most people thought that the colored yogurt had to have a flavor because it was colored. Only
one person guessed correctly that all the colors were actually the same vanilla flavor.