Tyler, Bryce and Kamen's Healthy Food Menu

 Hello readers, welcome back to my blog. Today I've got something special for you to read.

Today and yesterday me, Bryce and Kamen have crafted a healthy food menu! It is part of our health class and the "healthy eating" module. Surprisingly we only spent about 40 minutes on doing this and it was very fun! We got to choose our own meals to put into the menu (keep in mind they have to be healthy) and list the ingredients. We tried to keep the meals appropriate for the days, like roasts early in the week, slightly unhealthy stuff later in the week, and healthy stuff in the middle. We made the breakfasts very healthy every day, like smoothies, toast, and weet bix. Here is the menu, I hope we gave you some ideas. 

Science T4 - Blind Taste Testing

 Aim:

I want to find out if food tastes differently when you can't see or smell.

Research:

Method:

Equipment

Hands

Blindfold (OR SCARF)

mystery food

Instructions

1. Get your equipment

 2. Wash your hands.

3. Put on your blindfold.

4. Put your hand out for food

5. Pinch your nose with the other hand.

6. Eat the food and chew it.

7. Guess what the food is.

8. Release your nose and taste the food.

9. Where does the food react on your tongue?

Results: 

Food #1. I think it was sugar because it felt like there were a lot of small sugar pieces.

Food #2. It was 100% salt. There was no difference when my nose was pinched and unpinched.

Food #3. It felt and tasted like baking powder.

Food #4. It was definitely citric acid.

Food #5. It was a sour lolly. It felt very squishy, and I could slightly taste the citric acid in my mouth.

Food #6. It was half a burger ring. It was very crunchy and jagged.

Food #7.  Dry Marshmallow. It felt quite dry and hard. 

Food #8. 100% apple slice. 

Food #9. It was a gummy bear. 2nd favorite lolly! :D

Food #10. It was a pear. 

Food #11. IT'S DAIRY MILK CHOCOLATEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

Food #12 (final food) EW ITS LEMON EW EW EW EWWWWWWWWWW (I spat it out into the trash)

Discussion 

Is there a difference between blocked and unblocked nose taste?

Yes, because when your nose is blocked it cuts off taste buds that are in your nasal cavities, and it also kills your sense of smell. You therefore cannot determine the food that easily.

Mentos and Coke experiment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 Aim: 

I want to find out what happens when you drop mentos into coke.

Research

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBq3f5nRr5U 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4MLPkTrOq4

Method:

Equipment

Coke bottle (no sugar) (size optional)

Pack of mint mentos, optional size (The more size, the more craziness!)

Towel (paper or not is optional)

Detergent

You could either use coke no sugar or sprite.

Remember, if it's a big pack of mentos, it has to be a big bottle of coke.

Instructions

1. get your equipment

2. put on your safety glasses

3. pour some coke into test tube or cup

4. place a towel under the cup

5. place the mentos into the test tube or cup

6. observe

Results

In the coke bottle, the surface of the mentos is rough, and that allows the bonds between the carbon dioxide gases and the coke, to break easier, helping the creation of carbon dioxide bubbles as the surface of the lolly is dissipating into the coke while the coke is busy fizzing about. Because the mentos are rather dense and collect moisture, they sink through the coke while dissipating and becoming a part of the coke which triggers a large bubble build up.

This was also the last science period until term 4, I'll miss you mr stock

SKittle Colours

 Aim: 

I want to find out what happens when you put skittles in water.

Method:

Equipment

• 8x SKITTLES
• warm water
• beaker
• petri dish
• paper towel

Instructions

1. get your equipment
2. put the skittles into the Petri dish
3. spread them around the sides
4. clean the beaker and dry it
5. gently pour the water into the middle of the Petri dish
6. observe how the skittles react.
   
   
   

This was a very fun experiment all in all.

Results: the skittles leaked their colours into the middle of the petri dish as soon as the water was tipped into it, and the only colour left in them was at the top where they could not be submerged by the water. That's called diffusion. As a result, most of them appeared to take a crystallised form. But, the reason the colours didn't MIX while they were taking the travels to the middle of the dish is because of something called water stratification.   That is the reason. The reason that the bottom half of the skittles will appear crystallised is because of the skittle's coating (called Shellac) being ripped off the lolly by the water along with the colour. It will also feel bumpy as it takes on the form. (don't take that the wrong way please. if you do that's not my fault)

The water also tasted very sugary because of all the colour of the skittles going into the water, obviously, and the colours have sugar in them. That's my explanation.

Well, I don't know what else to say, apart from this MAY have been the most enjoyable experiment I've done yet. Maybe apart from the edible slime one, but as I'm writing this I don't know.

I hope you enjoyed reading this longer than average blog and I'll see y'all next week probably. 

published at 1:43am NZST