Sensory Evaluation

Do you know that this is? This is the Natto, it is a Japanese traditional food that made out of a certain kind of bean. It is a fermented food using fermentation technique to enhance the flavor of the bean.

This is the one thing that I would not enjoy and always avoid to taste. Even though I used to live in Japan and even my wife is Japanese but the small and the texture of it is no appetite at all for me always.

Anyway, today is the day I try the Natto, I followed the traditional way of eating which is seasoning with a bit of soy source and spicy-mustard on the top of a bowl of rice, and mix it and eat it.

The first taste that approached to my palate is the texture and salty, a bit of sweet and a little bit of bitter followed after. It smells is extraordinarily strong it is like socks that had been soaked by a lot of sweat and did not wash for a week. The texture of it is very sticky, it almost like sputum I`m so sorry to say that but this is what I have felt. Are there any similar flavors to it? I do not know but I can tell it is very unique, very.

In terms of the texture, it pretty much similar to the Okura. It is a vegetable that has a very similar texture like the Natto. When it comes to combining all flavors in my mouth then it creates very unique food. I do not know that I can say it is delicious because even though I`ve just tasted but I do not know what it tastes like. To understand this flavor of food requires an understanding.

It is flavourful and tasty without the texture, it has a salty, bitter, sweet, spicy and a sort of smokiness a bit. Am I going to use this food into my cooking? I do not know, because I do not think that I understood about it. But I would like to try to continue until the point where I can understand the taste of it.

Lastly, I would like to say that this assignment was very fun to do and it gave me a sense of feeling that pleasure of knowing and discovering the flavor that I did not know. And It teaches me how to look at the food with no bias.