Taste
Try to recognize the flavours and aromas
Tasting vocabulary for olive oil
Positive Characteristics
Sweet
Apple
Spicy pungent
Bitter
Fruity Green leaves
Fruity (ripe mature)
Olive fruit
Others
Negative characteristics
Fusty
Metallic
Mustiness humid earthy
Muddy sediment
Vinegary winey
Rancid
Others eg Cucumber Brine
Reading The Label
Name of the product
Definition: e.g Extra virgin olive oil
Country of origin
Best-by-date
Acidity level
Date and year of pressing
Net quantity
Company contact information
Ingredient list
Nutrition labeling
UPC scanning codes
56
/ TRIIRIS / JUNE 2015
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