I have come to the conclusion that I am not the best creative writer and blogging is not the form of expression that comes most naturally to me. It takes time and effort to construct my thoughts in a way that may paint an accurate picture for the reader. While pondering this I realized that I am much better at reporting research and that my training as a Master in Clinical Psychology has led me to be a really great at writing the “matter of fact” documents that describe with accuracy the process of research.
With this in mind I decided to pick a research topic and go with it. So here where we are located, everyone speaks Russian and all of the signs for food are in the Russian alphabet. Which would be awesome if only I spoke Russian. One day I wanted to buy some chocolate but I was unable to due to not being able to communicate the kind that I wanted. So for the sake of knowing what chocolate to buy, I decided to make it my research project.
Procedures:
I chose 3 other candidates with a distinguishing tongue to have a diverse report of the chocolate flavors. I attained 11 different types of chocolates with intriguing wrappers. The team would gather in one room and we would pick the piece that we would look most appetizing at the moment. We would slowly unwrap the chocolate and smell the different scents that this piece would produce and then we would slowly bite into it figuring out all the different flavors that were contained in this piece.
Data Collection:
# |
Name |
Wrapper description |
Chocolate outside |
Filling Inside |
Extra info
|
Stars (1-5 best) |
1 |
Visina in Ciocolata |
Purple Wrapper w/ green stripe |
Milk chocolate |
Smooth white confectionary, cherry liquor, cherry |
Cherries have seeds |
3 |
2 |
Moldova |
Red w/gold stars |
Milk chocolate w/ hint of hazelnut and wafer chips |
Milk chocolate |
Looks like a reverse Kit Kat ® but not as sweet |
4 |
3 |
LERA |
Brown with gold hearts |
Milk chocolate thickly wrapped with rose swirl shape on top |
Base layer nugget, top layer smooth caramel |
|
|
4 |
Duet |
Red and gold w/people dancing |
Milk chocolate with a hint of cooca |
Chocolate marshmallow with smooth creamy caramel |
|
4 |
5 |
Sweets Shelty Mix |
White and hot pink |
Milk chocolate (semi-sweet) |
2/3 smooth caramel, 1/3 raspberry jelly |
Good texture, smooth |
|
6 |
Monblan |
Red with brown writing and gold outline |
White chocolate on top portion and cocoa chocolate |
Cocoa with chopped nuts |
Hard texture, white chocolate balances the bitter cocoa taste |
|
7 |
Souffle Luxe |
Pink and clear with gold inside wrapper |
Dark chocolate shaped like an egg |
¾ marshmallow, 1/3 cherry liquor |
Too sweet and fluffy |
|
8 |
K to CKA3Ar “My?” |
White and blue with cow and lily |
Milk chocolate w/ swirl design in dark chocolate |
Wafer thinly inside the chocolate shell, whipped white chocolate crème inside |
|
4 |
9 |
Buccuria Struguri in Ciocolata |
Green with hot pink stripe down the middle |
Milk chocolate |
Liquid sugar, solidified white crème, 2 pits for deteriorated grape with skin on |
Strange after taste |
1 |
10 |
Ko-Ko choco |
Chicken on cover |
White chocolate |
Crème that looks like an egg with darker yellow crème with a strong vanilla taste |
Pungent vanilla taste |
|
11 |
Zephirka |
Pink |
Milk chocolate |
Strawberry marshmallow |
|
4 |
Pictures of wrappers:
#1 #2
#3 #4
#5 #6
#7 #8
#9 #10
#11
Conclusions: We love chocolate! I never had a hard time finding volunteers to participate in this research. The best one was Lera with a 4.5 rating.
I thoroughly enjoyed this research and I believe it brought Team Awaken and Team Relentless Light a bit closer as we enjoyed a sweet treat. J