Learning About Produce Activity Overview

[CLICK 2 SCIENCE pd] [Learning About Produce] >> We're going to be tasting these things in front of you, on your plate. We're going to try and find the difference between store-bought and farm fresh. >> Can you tell the difference between store-bought and farm fresh produce? Watch as these youth are taken through a simple taste test activity to see if they can predict which is which. >> Farm fresh vegetables can be determined by taste, texture, and smell of a vegetable. >> Splendid, very good job, and that's what we're going to do. Look on your paper, aroma, texture, flavor, see all those different columns we have: Vegetable 1, Vegetable 2, Vegetable 3, Vegetable 4, Vegetable 5, and Vegetable 6? >> Hm-mm. >> And below there, it gives you different things to help you determine what it tastes like, what it seems like to you. Clean, fresh, floral, fruity. >> I don't really like tomatoes or cucumber. >> Well, we're not going to ask you to eat a whole lot of it, just get a little taste. Is that all right? Okay, smell it. Can you smell the cucumber? >> Smell your cucumber. >> Okay? Pick it up and feel it. Does it feel mushy? Just write down how it feels. >> It feels like smooth. >> Soft. >> Okay, it's soft. At the very bottom, I would like you to put either a SB for store-bought or FF for farm fresh. And you give a prediction. You let me know what do you think. [CLICK 2 SCIENCE pd] [Learning About Produce]