{"id":1918,"date":"2017-01-31T16:34:57","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T15:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/AithPrimaryDepartment\/?p=1918"},"modified":"2017-01-31T16:34:57","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T15:34:57","slug":"are-you-a-supertaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/AithPrimaryDepartment\/2017\/01\/31\/are-you-a-supertaster\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you a supertaster?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Have you ever heard of supertasters? This week, pupils in primary 4,5,6 & 7 were investigating.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Supertasters experience bitter tastes more strongly than other people because they have a higher number of taste receptors within their fungiform papillae \u2013 the big pink bumps on your tongue which contain your taste buds.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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By counting the number of fungiform papillae<\/strong> on a tongue, you can determine whether someone is\u00a0a supertaster<\/strong>, a taster<\/strong> or a non-taster<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

We did an experiment to find out.<\/p>\n

Our results:<\/span><\/p>\n

We discover that 20% of pupils were ‘non-tasters’, 54% were ‘tasters’ and 26% were ‘supertasters’.<\/p>\n

We can’t wait to try the next experiment with…<\/p>\n