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The result from screening experiment was not significant in term of difference between samples. Therefore, team A asked to panelists who tested the product last time to evaluate and make comment for individual sample. The group of assessors were divided into three group containing 5 people each. The assessors were given the sample and discussed the product characteristic those are color, aroma, tea taste and overall attribute. Most of the assessor agreed that the concentration of the burnt cereal and pulses aroma affects the flower taste that balance the overall taste of the tea. Firstly, the color the product is acceptable for every samples the consumer prefer to the color that is not too greenish yellow. They can accept the yellowish brown because they expected that green tea added with some cereal or pulses ingredient has to have unique color that is not similar to green tea. Secondly, the aroma of the product is the aspect that they had discussed. The sample those were added by the higher concentration of the tea were more grassy but the samples those were added by higher concentration of cereal and pulses occurred the unique of roasting aroma and it influence of the chrysantimum flower flavor. Thirdly, the tea taste was discussed and the focus group demonstrated that most of the samples are accepted and some over roasting aroma was the major factor of the overall aspect. Lastly for the overall aspect, the focus group gave the conclusion that all the sample could be improved by reduce the burnt aroma from roasting and adjust some tea amount comparing to the cereal and pulses concentration.

After team A obtained the result from the group discussion, we decided to repeat the screen experiment again by using the adjustment of the product formulation and the roasting condition that could improve the preference score and the signification between samples.

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