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…
