:: Food n Nutrition ::

We were introduced to F & N coursework B and we did a round of stations with different test. The 1st station was comparing 2 types of cheese but i did not take picture =( The idea was to compare 2 types of cheese (1 is slighter darker shade of yellow and the other is lighter shade of yellow) to see the correlation between colour and fat content. We had to eat the cheese and determine which gives a more smoother taste. Usually for cheese, we will associate darker shade of yellow with higher fat content while light shade is more healthy with less fat content. But is it really true? Perhaps we should make a trip to supermarket today!

2nd station, we had to answer whether we preferred cola or pepsi. Afterwhich we tried 2 types of cola drinks and answer which do we prefer.

3rd station was yummy! =) We had to try cakes and evaluate the various attributes of the cakes such as the colour and how buttery is the cake.

Xiu explaining the procedures

3rd station where we had to taste 3 samples and identify the odd one out. But everything tasted almost the same to me haha.

Missed out one station on smelling as i was among the last to move around the station so cant help it.

My group was in charge of this station where we wanted to determine how the sense of smelling affects the sense of tasting. Let's take a sneak peek into the preparation process:

We were given 4 bottles of food with different flavours (can you guess what food is it?) Yeah, its baby food!

We had to tape up the bottle so that the taster will not be able to see what flavour is written on the bottle. Four taped up bottles with different 3 digit code. Interesting experiment? haha

Ta daa~ Our final presentation before tasters come to our station. Did you notice that the contains of the four bottles  are all red? We have added red colouring to the food! This is to make all the food look similar as they were of different shades before we added the colouring.

People who came to our station had to put on nose clip, which means they wont be able to smell what is it. They have to try a spoonful of the 4 samples and guess what flavour is the different bottle.

Interestingly, many people could not differentiate the taste of the food with their nose clipped. But actually even with our nose clipped up, we should be able to identify the flavour but to very limited extent. Dont believe it? Try it yourself! =)