Download Jelly bean taste test Notes for teachers

Jelly bean taste test
Notes for teachers:
First check for allergies or meat additives as you may have vegetarians in your class and some varieties of jelly bean are made
with animal products.
You will need a bag of jelly beans that are different colours AND different flavours,
beware some economy beans which are a variety of colours all just taste of sugar!
Then decide on and sort out four varieties that are corrsponding colours and flavours
eg. lemon, orange, strawberry and blackcurrant.
Children work in pairs. Each pair needs a record sheet and a set of four beans in a
feely bag or bowl with a cover to ensure that they cannot see the beans either before
or after they have taken one.
The taster is blindfolded or closes their eyes and the scribe offers the bag and records
responses when the taster:
 smells the bean
 tastes the bean
 sees the bean.
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Jelly bean taste test
Tester name: ...........................................Scribe name: ................................................................... Date: ............................................
Jelly bean taste test!
Colour the bean to show which flavour you think it is.
What flavour/colour do you think
it is when you smell the bean
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What flavour/colour do you
think it is when you taste
the bean
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What is the actual flavour/colour?
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