Last Class :(

For the last class we discuss and learned about food additives in food. Food additives are usually use in small amount in food to make it look appealing and tasty. This is what consumer want because they want to buy product which has nice colour rather than dull and taste great. Generally food additives used in market are safe to consume but in moderate intakes.

There 2 types of additives which is artificial and natural. it also helps to prolong the shelf life of food so it can last longer and can be keep until needed. There is a good and bad of this but consumer should play a role to understand and know of their food that they eat.

This is the last class of experimental food products and I had learned a lot of things in this class and my biggest proud is our ice cream that we make.

p/s: you never know until learn 

Fiber 101

We learned about fiber, yes fiber!!! the trending health product now days. Now I know that fiber is not about things in vegetable only but it has 3 category which is soluble fiber, insoluble fiber and gums. Insoluble fiber helps the movement of feces through our intestines and help control as well as balance the acidity in our intestines while soluble fiber binds with the fatty acids and they also prolong stomach emptying thus sugar was released and absorbed slowly.

Gums are also known as hydrocolloids. it can form viscous solutions and most of them do not gel. They have a variety of uses in food as they have many different functional roles. They can work as texture modifiers, thickeners, gelling agents  and emulsifiers. That is so cool!!

Sensory Test of Ice Cream

So finally the time has come for our ice cream to undergo sensory test to know how the people acceptance of our ice cream. For this test we have garnish our ice cream with lady finger, cocoa powder, chocolate-coffee sauce and almond flake to make it interesting and presentable. We choose it to make like ice cream potong style.

 sample of our ice cream product

part of the people coming to the test

After the result being analysis we have a good feedback from it although some it not really like our ice cream but there are people who like it also. some of the comment are that our ice cream taste like coffee, not smooth and nice.

Thank you for your support by coming to our test...

Well there can be some improvement to our ice cream but overall we satisfied with it. Thanks for my team to make it this work well.

p/s: teamwork is the keyword ;)

Sensorial Evaluation 101


At this class we learned about what is sensorial evaluation. So basically it a test that being done to test on a new food product about the food whether it nice or not using our taste buds, eyes and nose. There a lot of different type of test in sensorial evaluation but we learned the basic things only.

We need to do a sensory test also for our ice cream products to know the acceptance of ice cream thus this will help us to understand about it and doing our score card for the test.

so watch out for it...

p/s: sensory test is not all about tasting food only ;)

Experiment 4.0

So this time of experiment we going to make cookies. What is to learned from here??hihii

We are going to test out on the fat content and fat replacer that is commonly used to make bakery products such as emulsifier and hydrocolloid. From that we going to see what is the different for this fat replacer and how its affect the texture and structure of the cookies. The cookies was test with emulsifier and hydrocolloid separately and we also experiment on reducing the fat content of the cookies which is butter and adjusting the emulsifier and hyrdocolloid accordingly to get the best result.

So first we have to make the cookies first...

basic cookies dough

cookies dough after being shape

baked cookies

as you can see from the picture..at left is the cookies that using the emulsifier SSL while next to it is using hydrocolloid. 

The result...

result for first test

result for second test

As for the first result the emulsifier and hydrocolloid has firmer dough and texture then the basic. For the second result where we remove some of the fat content in the cookies, it has has the desired texture and taste that we want although some of the fat has being removed. Overall it was a fun experiment that we did this time plus a lot of cookies to eat :)

p/s: u never know what will happen until u experiment...