Copy and evaluate a commercial baby food with a homemade equivalent

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Baby food test

I chose to copy and evaluate a commercial baby food with a homemade equivalent. I am going to make a jar of baby food then comparing it with a commercial equivalent. I will try to make sure both have roughly the same ingredients. I will then make my bolognas and blend to the correct consistency so it is easy for the baby to eat. I will let people test it and give there opinion on the:

  1. Texture
  2. Colour
  3. Convenience
  4. Best flavour
  5. Most appetising
  6. Value for money

I will then place the results I get on to a table then transfer it to a graph. Once I have done this I will weigh up the pros and cons of each one and give which one seems to be most like out off the two.

I will do the coursework in steps they are:

  • Look at commercial baby foods and find one to compare with
  • List the ingredients and write a method to making it
  • Cost food
  • Make food and test with ten people
  • Write the results
  • Draw up a table
  • Draw graph
  • Evaluate my work

I chose to copy the spaghetti bolognas made by Heinz with a price of 45p for a jar of 150 mls. I made my homemade equivalent using:

  • 250 grams of minced beef
  • 1 tin of peeled tomatoes
  • 50 grams of mushroom (5-6 mushrooms approximately)
  • Half an Oxo cube
  • 50 millilitres of water
  • Half a medium onion.

They came to a price of:

Minced Beef meat: 79p

Onion: 21p

Oxo cube: £1.09p for a pack of ten (109  10= 11p each)

Peeled tomatoes: 19p

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Mushrooms: 45p    

79p

 21p

 11p

 19p

+45p

 

Total: £1.75p

The equipment I will need will be:

Large pot

Wooden spoon

Liquidiser

Cooker

Water

250g minced beef

Half an onion

One tin of tomatoes

1 Oxo cube

The aim of this was to see which of the two was most cost effective, which was most nicely flavoured, best colour, best texture, which is most convenient and which looked most appetising. To work this out I'm going to do a survey and draw out a chart. The results will ...

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