Chips and Ice Cream

Which is a main idea of both paired texts?

• Some food companies want us to eat unhealthy food.

• You have thousands of taste buds in your mouth.

• It’s everyone’s job to know when to stop eating snack food.

• Flavorists work hard to create flavors for foods that people will love.

In the first paragraph of “Why Are These Chips Sooo Delicious?,” the word they appears several times. In that paragraph, they refers to ______.

• flavorists

• flavors

• smells

• chips

In the first section, the sentence “Their work is right in front of you” means that ______.

• you can watch flavorists working in their labs

• many of the foods you eat every day were created by flavorists

• you can see your taste buds in the mirror

• flavorists put food into colorful containers

Where are your taste buds located? Choose TWO answers.

• in your brain

• in your cheeks

• on your tongue

• in your nose

In the sentence “That slimy pink blob is a tool for detecting flavor,” the word detecting means the same as ______.

• enjoying

• getting rid of

• making

• noticing

Based on the first paired text, why do we often want to keep eating certain snack foods?

• We want another burst of flavor.

• Our taste buds pop in our mouths.

• Our noses need more time to sense the flavors. D Our brai

• Our brains need more time to figure out what the flavor is.

Why did the author write the second text, “The Sweetest Job”?

• to show why people like certain flavors of ice cream

• to explain what it’s like to be an ice cream food scientist

• to make readers want more ice cream

• to describe why Natalia’s pear ice cream flavor failed

Based on both texts, which statement is true about creating food flavors?

• Food scientists always work alone.

• Most ideas that flavorists have get turned into popular foods.

• It can take years to create a successful new flavor.

• Food scientists never create healthy foods.