Welcome To My World: The Success of Food Fair

Well, finally the Food Fair was finished! It was a great success event with the helps and contributions by each of the group members. I am surprise that we can make the Food Fair the best one. I give this Food Fair a mark of 95% and the remaining 5% was due to the lacking of food products available for selling. All the products were sold out before the Food Fair was to be ended, unbelievable!! Some people were not able to get one of our Food product!!

our food product - Dra-gurt (Dragon fruit + yogurt)

RM 4 per cup

Dra-gurt description

Dra-gurt food label

Our Booth...

"yummy, nice!!" our customers' comment

I'm happily selling the food product!!

I'm explaining the benefits of Dra-gurt to Dr Hon

Joyce and I are providing service..

Today was a hectic day to all of us, we were not only have to sell the food products but also have to do the poster and oral presentations.

poster presentation on 'High Risk Food'

My group's oral presentation was on the food combination between persimmons and crabs during the Food Fair. The whole slides preparation was such a challenging and exciting process to us! It was so difficult to search on the effect of crabs and persimmons to our human body.I was at first heard some hearsays that these two when combined together can cause diarrhea effect. This made me curious and I searched on the information from some reliable websites and it showed that there were quite a number of people did experience diarrhea after consuming this crab and persimmons combination. Since I know this crab and persimmons combination does really affect the human body health, I decided to search for more information regarding this food combination with my other two group members.

It was a hard task for us as we had no knowledge about food combination before, we searched from many sources that do not explain the reaction between crabs and persimmons, so we decided to search on the reaction between the compounds contain in the crab and persimmon. We did find the interaction between protein and tannic acid which combine give the diarrhea effect. Food combination is actually about the interaction of foods in our digestive tract. We can actually know the good or bad effect when one food is combined with another food once we know how the disgestive system works.

Through two weeks research, we were finally complete our task by knowing the interaction between crabs and persimmons. We thought the tasks would be over just by submitting the research works we did. We never expect that our lecturer would ask us to do either poster or oral presentation during the Food Fair. My first thought was "OH MY GOD.!! we had plenty of works to do for the Food Fair now comes another one again...killing man..."
But after some times, I aware that this is actually a good oppurtunity for us as students to explore ourselves, to experience new things besides studies, so I made up my mind and decided to do oral presentation instead of poster presentation.

The video below is the slide presentation about food combination between crabs and persimmons that presented by me in the Food Fair.

At first, I had fear in doing presentation in front of public as I'd never done public speaking in my whole life before. However, my lecturer let me did the rehersal in front of my coursemates before presenting it during the Food Fair. The rehersal explored me to various possible questions which would be asked during the Food Fair, this gave me an idea on how to handle questions during presentation. I really feel thankful to have my coursemates and my lecturer that helped me up on the presentation with all their sincere comments and ideas. I modified my slides and arranged it in a better sequence to make the presentation flow better without any stoppage. This is the technique my lecturer taught me in order to produce a good presentation.

To my surprise, my fear was totally gone when I was presenting in front of public during the Food Fair. Maybe this is what people always said 'Practice makes perfect!' This presentation was so appealing as some lecturers from UCSI University wanted to know more about the physiology of our human body towards the food combination. They even encourgaed me to do further research on food combination. Finally,this presentation brought us an award by being the first prize winner of the oral presentation!! This is an acknowledgement of our hard works!! Bravo!!