Sunday Times Food Awards
Which supermarket makes the most fabulous pumpkin fritters?
In a quest to help you buy the best, we put ready-made pumpkin fritters to the taste test
HOW WE CONDUCTED OUR TASTE TEST
IT'S FREE AND FAIR!
Taste is a subjective thing, but when you gather a group of experts and ask them to blind-taste pumpkin fritters from three major supermarkets, you have a fair way of assessing quality.
For this taste test, the judges were Professor Gerrie du Rand of the Department of Consumer and Food Sciences at the University of Pretoria and 30 of her final-year students.
Using the facilities at the department, the products were unwrapped, numbered and prepared exactly to package instructions. The students were asked to judge each product according to appearance, aroma, taste and texture, as well as to say whether they would consider buying it.
What is interesting is that there is always a clear winner in each category and the comments reflect similar sentiments.THE RESULTS
FIRST PLACE: WOOLWORTHS
Pumpkin fritters with a sugar cinnamon syrup
Price: R34.99 for 260g
What the judges said:..
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