This past Tuesday, February 2, we had our midterm review. Everyone's projects were based on the human interaction with food and Brittany and I did a project based on smell.
Seventy to seventy-five percent of what we perceive as taste actually comes from our sense of smell. Taste buds allow us to perceive only bitter, salty, sweet, and sour flavors. It's the odor molecules from food that give us most of our taste sensation. We wanted to see how we could play with people’s taste buds through smell by creating dishware that smells different than the item you are eating off it.
By eating a sugar cookie off a plate that smells like strawberries your brain thinks it is eating strawberry cookies. We hope that this product line could eventually carry many different scented plates to include smells like the ocean, crisp mountain air, and pine trees.
The project turned out really well and people did in deed think they were eating strawberry cookies while they stood in our box area and as soon as they walked away they would look at their cookie slightly confused because it no longer tasted like strawberry. It was a great success in my mind.
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