Which Beef Jerky Tastes the Best?Matador, Great Value or Jack Links ?

Purpose The reason we are doing this project is to see what

brand of beef jerky tastes the best to third graders.

We think Matador will win because it is less chewy and salty than other brands.

Hypothesis

The materialsOne 12oz bag of Matador Beef Jerky One 12oz bag of Jack Links Beef Jerky.One 12oz bag of Great Value Beef

Jerky.Three pieces of white paperThirteen small square pieces of paper

with the letters A, B and C on each one.

•One pencil•One office•One container to hold the votes.

The Materials cont…

The ProceduresFirst we bought Great Value, Jack Links and Matador beef

jerky.Then we brought it school and left it at school until the

taste test.Next we set out 3 papers labeled A,B and C.We labeled the bags of jerky as follows…Matador A, Jack

Links B and Great Value C.Then we put 13 bite size pieces of Matador on the paper

marked A.

Procedures Cont.•Then we put 13 small bite size pieces of Jack Links on paper B.•Then we put 13 small bite size pieces of Great Value on paper C.•Fourth the people voted which jerky tasted the best .•Last we counted all the votes and created a graph of the results.

Brands of Beef Jerky

A B C

Matador 6

jack links 3

great value

which beef jerky taste the best?

A B C

Matador 6

Jack Links 3

Great Value 4

Which Beef Jerky Tasted the Best?

ConclusionOur experiment turned out the way it did

because Matador is less chewy and more saltier than

Jack Links and Great Value. If we were to do this

experiment again we would do original beef jerky, bacon

jerky andbarbeque beef jerky.

Acknowledgement Thank you parents and teachers for

giving us the appliances that we needed for the science fair project. We are so thankful for what you got us. Thank you judges for the judging. We also thank everyone for participating in the science fair .

Science fair group member

Alex Goldesberry

Emaleah Mays

Jonathan Nohren