Report Writing/Market Study

Report writing/Market study

I was part of a group of 5 who were responsible for the report writing. I was solely responsible for the market assessment part of the report and thus collected facts and figures and other literature reviews.

I was also involved in framing the executive summary of the report.

I collected the completed market survey questionnaires from all the members and tabulated them in excel sheet and made appropriate graphs. 

I later taught Harrison Nganga,my group mate how to upload and edit details on the wiki page as his group was responsible for editing the wiki page henceforth.

Product tasting/Sensory Analysis

Product tasting/sensory analysis

Since everyone in the group had sensory lab practicals on the day of product tasting,I arranged for the sensory test by placing appropriate beef and chicken samples,making codes for each of them to identify all the 8 samples and also made arrangements for glass/water/tissue that was to be provided for each assessor.
Took prints of the questionnaire that was prepared by Vicky Dine and distributed them among the assessors. Full time guidance was given as many of them had trouble understanding the ranking scale used. All the forms were then collected and submitted to Vicky.

Sample Marinate and Drying Studies

Made spice jerky with chicken using the spice recipe i prepared. I used spices like red chilly powder, coriander powder,pepper,salt,ginger,garlic and dried corriander leaves to prepare the marinate. I suggested that we should use tray driers instead of the oven as the oven cooks the meat and not exactly dehydrate them.We thus spoke to Ian Hardy,our lab technician and Melvin Holmes about this and we got a handy,relatively small tray drier.The next day we conducted our drying studies and I tabulated the temperature-moisture loss readings every half an hour.
I then prepared the consent forms that had to be circulated during the sensory test for the following week.

Literature collection

Found further literature reviews and did a search on the various beef jerky brands available.
Prepared a new spice recipe to be used during the preparation of our sample products for the sensory analysis and later had a discussion with couple of group members who came up to me and asked me the reasons for having more group meetings than proposed in the team contract. Had a chat with them to build a better team understanding.