Hello, welcome back to my blog! These two weeks I continued to do the nutritional analysis for the rest of the recipes. I had great progress this week, and I have finished all the analysis for the recipes. Also, at this stage, I added one chart for each recipe, which was the nutritional table. Now each recipe had three forms of report, and the other two were spreadsheet and multi-column. Meanwhile, if there were some recipes that had optional ingredients, I would produce two versions of reports with the optional ingredient and without the optional ingredient. I produced more than twenty reports in total during these two weeks, so I would just show the screenshots for some of them.
The other nice progress is that we are going to conduct sensory testing for flavoured yogurt next Tuesday, July 26th. The four flavours were strawberry, strawberry-banana, peach and Lemon or lime. Last meeting with our community partner, we got a lot of information, and we had a clearer idea about what our community partner wanted. Nick said that we should be as convenient as possible. He meant that if we had trouble producing yogurt under an ideal environment, it would be difficult for youth to work in café or shelter. After this consideration, we decided to add the flavour after the plain yogurt was made. Also, we asked Dr. Hekmat about if we would have problems adding the flavour after fermentation. She said it’s okay if we cool the yogurt down to set yogurt gel. Thus, our plan will work.
I am so excited to go to the shelter again. Hope everything is going well for our sensory testing.
Zhihui Xiao - Western Heads East 