Are you a super taster? Super tasters experience bitter tastes more strongly than other people; this is because they have a higher number of taste receptors within fungiform papillae, the big pink bumps on your tongue which contain your taste buds, enabling you to taste sweet, sour, salty, bitter and umami. By counting the number of fungiform papillae, you will be able to determine whether you are a super taster, taster or non taster.

This week is British Science Week! To celebrate, this afternoon we took part in an experiment which is part of the BBC Terrific Scientific series of lessons.

We put blue food colouring on our tongues and then poked our tongues out through a hole in a card. We had to count how many pink bumps we could see. These were our fungiform papilliae. In our class, 12 were non-tasters and only 4 were tasters.

After taking part in the experiment we watched the Live Lesson as a class. It was really fun and interactive.

Did you know that tastebuds only last for 10-14 days? We are continually growing new ones!

Well done also to Jenna who today completed a Fair Isle purse. It’s lovely!