IT’S FREE AND FAIR

We put out a call to readers to be part of the panel of tasters — parents with their children who came together on a Saturday morning to be presented with each of the products ‘naked’, without any branding or packaging. The products from the two supermarkets were matched so that the tasters were testing like with like. Chefs from HTA Culinary School in Randburg weighed the products before preparing them as per the instructions on the packaging — heating them in a microwave on high for between 1½ and 2 minutes. Auditor Frederika Pardoe was on hand to monitor the process, from removing the packaging to numbering the products, overseeing the process in the kitchen and adding up the scores on the score sheets on which the tasters entered their opinions.