CCDN 231 Final hand in

I would like to thank:

-Rosalyn Hpa

Stephanie Hpa

-Ricky Cheung

-Chantelle Meyer

-Andy Brady

For there participation in this experiment

For my CCDN project 1 I have decided to work with the everyday activity of eating an apple. I am mainly focusing on two senses, Sight and Taste. I took 5 of my friends and family and gave them all each a different type of apple. They cut it into 4 pieces and told them that every 15 minutes that I am going to ask them to eat a piece and also comment on how the apple looks at each stage.

At 0 minutes there were no surprising results from what the testers said about the apples. The key words that came out of the test at 0 minutes were that the apple looked Juicy, Crisp, Crunchy, Sour, and Sweet. Those were the outcomes, which I predicted would happen. But with the taste there was a little bit of a surprise. On Apple 3, the Participant said that it looked very sweet, but the result of that was the complete opposite where it was said that it was quite sour.

During the first 15 minutes was when the most change happened to the apples. Apple 1 looked really unappetizing to the participant. It continued to look dry but also has already started to become brown. But the taste was different than how it looked and still tasted quite juicy and really crunchy. Apple 2 and 5 both seemed to look like they have aged slightly and both participants said that it looks just eatable. They both also stated that they had already become sour but still crunchy and juicy. Apple 3 and 4 still looked the same as it did at the start. Apple 4 tasted exactly the same, but Apple 3 had changed from sour to quite a sweet taste, which is quite surprising.

At 30 minutes the apples had changed slightly but not much. Apple 4 was the one with the least change. The only thing which changed from the looks and the taste was that it had started to lose its glistening. Apples 1, 2 and 5 all looked unappetizing. But the taste of the 3 still tasted pretty much the same. The participant for apple 1 was quite surprised that it still tasted really juicy and crunchy even though the looks didn’t make it look good at all. Apple 3 still looked really similar to the others, all the change was that it just started to look brown, but somehow had become even more juicy than it began with.

At 45 minutes there was very little change. All 5 apples started to get browner and started to look dry. All 5 participants said that they wouldn’t want to eat one of these apples after 45 minutes of it being left out. But after tasting them the participants who had apples 1, 3 and 4 stated that they still taste really nice, but it’s just the look of them that is off putting. Apples 2 and 5 on the other hand tasted really sour and only one bite of each was taken. Both participants said that it was really hard to eat because of the over welling sour taste

In this experiment I came up with the conclusion that if an apple doesn’t look good that doesn’t mean that the taste will also not be good. This may be different though as more time goes on.