“Are These Chips Too Delicious?” Quiz

Choose the one chip you like the most from the list provided.

• Doritos (any flavor)

• Lays (any flavor)

• Cheetos (any flavor)

• Takis (any flavor)

• None of these

1. What are flavorists?

• store clerks who help sell flavorful food

• managers who run snack food companies

• scientists who create different flavors for food

• experts who research health problems related to food

2. What first led to a need for flavorists?

• Companies began creating processed food.

• Companies learned that snack food created health problems.

• Scientists learned that taste buds sense five flavors.

• Scientists learned which flavors people like.

3. Which sentence best supports the answer to the last question? (What first led to a need for a flavorist?)

• “Today, nearly 60 percent of the foods we eat are processed.”

• “Our power to sense flavors is a survival tool.”

• “The goal of the first flavorists was to make processed foods taste even halfway as good as fresh.”

• “. . . your tongue is pretty lost without your nose.”

4. What does synthetic mean in the quote “Some chemicals are natural . . . Others are synthetic”?

• healthy

• artificial

• flavorful

• delicious

5. The sidebar “Yum Around the World” adds to the article because it shows . . .

• how companies use popular tastes in other countries to create snack flavors.

• the most popular snack flavors in the U.S.

• the process of creating new flavors.

• how flavorists mix chemicals to create flavors.

People tend to like chips because crunchy foods are often ______.

• salty

• soggy

• firm

• fresh

Both articles describe how snack foods are

• loud and annoying

• loud and delicious

• harmful and expensive

• made to be hard to resist

What is another word for umami?

• sweet

• salty

• gooey

• savory

Approximately how many taste buds do you have?

• 100

• 10

• 1,000

• 10,000