COURSE UNIT TITLE

: FOOD PRODUCT FORMULATION AND SENSORY EVALUATION

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
MSH 0013 FOOD PRODUCT FORMULATION AND SENSORY EVALUATION ELECTIVE 2 0 0 3

Offered By

Efes Vocational School

Level of Course Unit

Short Cycle Programmes (Associate's Degree)

Course Coordinator

Offered to

Efes Vocational School
Program of Tourismand Hotel Manegement

Course Objective

The main purpose of the course is to provide students with an opportunity to use their knowledge and experiences from previous courses in their programs to develop or modify a food product. Product formulation, ingredient interaction, market evaluation, Sensory evaluation, consumer testing, data interpretation, safety, and regulation will be covered. The impact of ingredient substitution and/or addition, and formulation on final product will be considered. Panel tests and their statistical interpretations; taste, odor, color, and texture; will be done to analyze the acceptance of new product by consumers.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Understands the major stages of product development
2   Develops prototypes
3   Prepares and administers questionnaires
4   Knows how to carry out the market survey
5   Gain detailed information about sensory food analysis and the panelist

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction- why to develop a new food product
2 Steps for product formulation/alteration
3 Importance of market survey- basic structure of questionnaires, GAP analysis, risk analysis, perceptual map
4 Prototype development
5 Sensory evaluation tests
6 Assignment- assigning the teams and the products
7 MIDTERM EXAM
8 Market survey (for the chosen product)
9 Preparation of the first recipes and the process flow diagrams
10 First Prototype development
11 Sensory evaluation tests
12 Sensory evaluation tests for the second prototypes
13 Class presentations

Recomended or Required Reading

1- Gordon W F, New food product Development: From concept to market place, CRC press, 2004
2- O'Mahony M,Sensory evaluation of food : statistical methods and procedures, New York, Marcel Dekker, 1986
3- McGee H, On food and cooking : the science and lore of the kitchen, New York, Scribner, 2004
4- Fellow P, Food processing technology : principles and practice, 3. ed., Cambridge, Woodhead, 2009
5- Gaman P M, Sherrington K B, The science of food, 4. ed., Oxford, Butterworth-Heinemann, 1996

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lectures, video impressions about the true facts and circumstances related to the subjects, assignments, presentations and by following the current researches through the study of academic papers on the subject

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) VZ * 0.40 + FN * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) VZ * 0.40 + BUT * 0.60


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

selale.glaue@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 2 24
Preparation for midterm exam 1 12 12
Preparation for final exam 1 12 12
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 2 24
Midterm 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 76

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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LO.311
LO.41
LO.51