Skittles are red, yellow, and green, but are they the sameflavor?

There is a rumor floating around that all Skittles taste the same and don't have different flavors.

The internet is gaga over this possibility, like when it was first revealed that all Froot Loops' cereals are just one flavor.

#MindBlownEveryttles is the same flavor.They smell different and taste different.Plug your nose while eating.It's a pic.

Skittles have different colors and smells, but they are the same flavor.How do you move on from that?

I am about to do a blind taste test before assuming that my life has been a lie after someone tried to tell me that Skittles are legit.

I'm checking to see if the Skittles hype is true.Is each Skittle the same?Is it possible to pick the correct flavor without looking at it?#MakeItReal is taught by #BethHouf.

The buzz surrounding this latest candy myth began with an NPR article in which the writer conducted an informal experiment with fellow employees to see if they could distinguish between different flavors of Haribo gummy bears in a blind taste test.The ability to name the right flavor declined when blindfolded.

The article included a quote from a professor of psychology, who said that Skittles have different fragrances and different colors, but they all taste the same.

He said he came to that conclusion after conducting a simple experiment.The combined signal our brains receive from the tongue, nose, eyes and ears is called taste.

To conduct the test, he blindfolded subjects and made them wear nose clips, and then fed them Skittles, telling them they were eating one color, while actually giving them another.According to him, subjects will guess correctly 50 percent of the time.This is how we know that Skittles have the same taste as everyone else.

He told TODAY Food that our brain fools us into thinking that the smell/color/sound/feel of a food changes what we think the food tastes like.

Mars Wrigley Confectionery says otherwise.Skittles has five fruity flavors, each of which has its own individual taste and flavor, according to a spokesman for the company.