Are you a supertaster?

January 31, 2017 Mr Balfour Leave a comment

Have you ever heard of supertasters? This week, pupils in primary 4,5,6 & 7 were investigating.

Supertasters experience bitter tastes more strongly than other people because they have a higher number of taste receptors within their fungiform papillae – the big pink bumps on your tongue which contain your taste buds.

By counting the number of fungiform papillae on a tongue, you can determine whether someone is a supertaster, a taster or a non-taster.

We did an experiment to find out.

Our results:

We discover that 20% of pupils were ‘non-tasters’, 54% were ‘tasters’ and 26% were ‘supertasters’.

We can’t wait to try the next experiment with…

Making Dumplings!!!!

January 31, 2017 Yelena Sylvia Leave a comment

This week p4,5,6,and 7 made dumplings with Wen Ting. We all really enjoyed it. How we did it was we got different kinds of dumplings in packages with all different kinds of flavours like egg and chives and last but not least we boiled them. It was really quick and easy to do . We really enjoyed making them (and eating them).