Date: 2/26/24

Topic : mint
Observation/problem : to test if mint freshens the breath
Hypothesis : Chewing mint leaves or chewing mint-flavored products will result in a decrease of bad
oral compared to not consuming mint
Material/ apparatus
2 mint sweet
2 piece of garlic

Method:
1. gather materials
2. smell your own breath when you wake up covering your hands to smell it
3. suck a mint and smell your breath to see if it smells different
4. eat a piece of garlic and smell your breath
5. eat a piece of garlic then suck a mint swell and smell your breath to see a difference

Variables:
Independent : chewing of mint sweet
Dependent:freshness of the breath
Controlled: number of sweet sucked

TABLE SHOWING THE SCALE OF 1-10 OF BAD ODOR OF SOMEONE BREATH

Breath before Breath after Garlic Breath after Breath before Breath after
eating the garlic eaten sucking the sweet sucking the sweet sucking the sweet
when the garlic
when eaten
Scale of 1-10

Expected results
if consuming the mint sweet it will cancel the bad odor and leave our breath fresh

Limitation: everyone smells thing at a different rate hence somebody nose is more sensitive than
others

Source of error the mint sweet was eaten not sucked

Precaution: suck the mint sweet rather than eating it to get the full results

Assumption sucking the mint sweet will freshens one breath