meeting+held+on+7th+June+2011

= **School of Food Science and Nutrition ** =

 FOOD 5450M Team D Meeting
**Tuesday 7th June 2011, 10 -2 pm ** **In attendance **: Ifeanyi Onwuka, Elissavet Terzi , Holay Balkrishna (Chairman) , Maryam Afzali (Secretary) , Mengli Li. **Venue **: Food Technology Laboratory Every member was present. None as this was the first meeting. **3. Matters arising from the minutes ** a) **a. strategy for development and optimization of our product ** During the meeting we explored effective ways of improving our low fat saffron ice cream which we already worked on it on the previous unit.   **b) ** b. **Challenges ** In first unit we faced some challenges with the flavour, creaminess and particularly texture of our product. As our ice cream is low fat ice-cream and fat plays an important role in the consistency and texture of the product, we realized that low fat saffron ice cream doesn’t fulfil desirable texture. Therefore we decided to focus on improving texture of the ice cream as well as creaminess by making some changes in emulsifiers and stabilizers. **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">c) ** c. **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Gantt chart update. ** <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">The team discussed and assigned tasks to each member of the team depending on their area of interest or experience. A gantt chart was drawn and tasks were assigned. It was also decided that task progress would be updated once a week on each task as progress is made.  = **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">d) 4. ****<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Tasks to be done before/by next meeting ** = <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">By the next meeting, team members are to search and get adequate information regarding to optimization of ice cream texture. Further discussion will be done to finalize the suitable emulsifiers and stabilizers. <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">No other business was reported <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">8th June, 2011
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">1. Apologies for Absence **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">2. Minutes of the last meeting **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">5. Any other business **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">6. Date of next meeting **