How does skittles taste

Please, no one tell Marshawn Lynch. The beverages had fruit flavorings. One was orange, one was grape, apple, lemon.

Then he added some food coloring to each beverage. Guess what happened? Try plugging your nose while eating. I just found out all the skittles are the same flavor, they just have different colors and smells.

I mean--how do you just move on from that. Someone just tried to tell me that Skittles are legit all the same flavor -and I am about to do a blind taste test before assuming that my whole life has been a lie. Checking to see if the Skittles hype is true. Is each Skittle really the same??? Can they pick the correct flavor without looking at it.

BethHouf fmsteach MakeItReal pic. The buzz surrounding this latest candy myth originated with an NPR article in which the writer conducted an informal experiment with fellow employees to see if they could distinguish between different flavors of Haribo gummy bears in a blind taste test. It turned out that, when blindfolded, tasters' abilities to name the right flavor declined significantly.

TODAY Food reached out to Katz and he maintained his position, saying he came to that conclusion based on a simple experiment he's conducted previously. The students did a really good job of identifying the flavours - until he added the 'wrong' food colourings to each liquid, making the grape flavour orange for example, and the apple flavour purple.

The yellow beverage tasted like lemonade. There wasn't a thing they could do about it. He continued, " The Skittles people, being much smarter than most of us, recognised that it is cheaper to make things smell and look different than it is to make them actually taste different. So if the smell and appearance look like one thing, it can taste entirely different? Our minds are blown. The nose is a much more complex organ, it can distinguish between about around , different volatiles — things in the air that you can smell.

Is anybody else in pure disbelief and planning a blind taste test right this second? Type keyword s to search.