Hello – message from Jenny Ridgwell – For Food Teachers: my NEA1 Food Investigations 10 Tasks is available again 30th August 2024 as a PDF download – this includes the tasks from the posts below and more. Investigations were researched and written using The Nutrition Program some years ago.
Now add a Taster (Jenny in this example) to taste your fruit salad and get them to score their results.
Now you can Evaluate the results of the fruit salad and see if it needs improving.
Just fill in the spaces for Evaluation.
Download the JPG to present in your work.
You can annotate the Star with more comments.
The final Star Profile compares the results of fats in pastry to see how they taste. You can add several types of pastry to the star to compare results and annotate.
Star profile fruit salad
Star profile with Evaluation filled in
Star profile with completed tasting and Evaluation.
I’ve made samosas with cucumber chutney – an example from OCR.
Samosa and cucumber chutney evaluation
Comments
Good points about food product
Nice shapes, well cooked, tasty filling
Improvements needed
Some samosas split open and baking was uneven.
Sensory words – descriptors
Easy to hold, spicy, golden, tasty and crisp pastry.
Fill in a chart like the one above.
Then decide on the Sensory Tasting words to use – Descriptors
I’ve chosen – easy to hold, spicy, golden, tasty and crisp pastry.
For the best samosa result that I want, I give each descriptor a mark out of 5.
easy to hold
5/5
spicy
4/5
golden
4/5
tasty
5/5
crisp pastry
5/5
Open the Star Profile in the Nutrition Program to evaluate your results.
Put these marks in the Rating column.
Get 2 or 3 people to taste your samosas and give a mark for each descriptor. Put their name on +Add Taster – the first one is Jenny – that’s me!
My tasters are called Jenny, Ali and Mosha. Enter their marks.
Complete the Evaluations for each Descriptor. Think about the marks the tasters have given.
Export as a jpeg.
You can put this image into your work. The Evaluations on the left show your comments. My samosas need a little more baking and more flavour with some spices.
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