An amazing toolkit of four brilliant Gastronautical experiments for blowing apart the usual ideas about what food is and what it does! Contains:

1. Bicarb Rocket kit. An explosive way to use your food and discover what happens inside cakes and bread. This is a food rocket made from a recycled film canister - charge it with the enclosed ingredients, turn it upside down and it pops into the air up to 8m! Contents include a recycled 35mm film canister, pack of bicarbonate of soda, pipette, lemon juice, tissue paper, instructions.
   

1. Bug Blood DIY Food Dye Kit. Feed your friends the enclosed cochineal-coloured sweets, then ask them if they’ve ever eaten insects before. Then take a pinch of dried cochineal bugs, grind them into a powder and drop into a glass of water and watch it turn bright purple. Now reveal that the sweets they ate were coloured with natural colouring E120 - cochineal bug blood! Contains pack of cochineal bugs, plus cochineal-coloured marshmallows, cola bottles and lollies.
   

1. Supertaster analysis kit (find out if you and your friends are supertasters). Are you a supertaster? Now you can find out with this handy kit containing PTC taste testing strips, blue food colouring, cotton buds and cards to count taste-bud concentration. The two tests together will tell you if you are one of the 10% of the population who are supertasters! Kit contains enough for 10 tests.
   

1. Smoking chips. Hardwood chips for smoking salmon in a biscuit tin, with recipe. Enough for 6 smokings.