Cooking and Food Preparation

• Five senses:

  • Taste
  • Sight
  • Smell
  • Touch
  • Hearing
• Tests:

  • Paired preference - chooseing their favourite of two products
  • Triangle testing - three samples are tested where two are the same
  • Ranking tests - creating an order of preference
  • Rating tests - giving a score to different characteristics
• Factors affecting food choice:

  • Physical Activity Level
  • Healthy eating
  • Income/cost of food
  • Availability of food
  • Seasonality
  • Personal preference
  • Lifestyke
  • Celebrations
• Required on food labels:

  • Name of food
  • Weight or volume
  • Ingredients/Allergens/GM ingredients
  • Date, storage, cooking info
  • Place of origin
  • Manufacturer
  • Batch number
  • Additives
  • Nutritional information
• Dates and storage:

  • Use by/best before
  • Display by
  • Sell by
  • Storage duration
• Nutritional labelling:

  • Energy in calories and kilojoules
  • Portion size
  • % Reference intake
  • Colour coded info
• Knives:

  • Chef's - dicing, chopping
  • Paring - fruit and veg
  • Boning - removing bones
  • Filleting - filleting fish
  • Carving - cooked joints
  • Bread - slicing bread
  • Palette - icing, moulding, smoothing