User talk:EaglesEyes1/Insects as food/Vansam823 Peer Review

Peer review response
Hi @Vansam823,

Thank you for a detailed and thoughtful review of my article draft. I appreciate it!

Picking up on some of your points:

- It wasn't clear in my Sandbox draft, but the table and content below the added image was from the original article. I agree it needs some work and citations.

Organoleptic Characteristics:

-You're right, taste is inevitably subjective. I was a sommelier in a past career and have a lot of experience with wine tasting and food pairings, which is part of the reason I wanted to include this section. Though taste is subjective, foodstuffs typically have a characteristic chemical composition and aromatic profile that will lead to common descriptors from a sufficiently large sample of tasters. But if you've never tried banana before, you're certainly not going to describe it as "banana" in a blind taste test. Perhaps including "common flavor descriptors" would be more neutral.

-The flavor profile table is kind of a beta-version; I wanted to try to make one. It does need formatting. I was unsure about the table title too, I had checked the Wiki style guide but was still confused. Ultimately, a title is always better than none. Species names would be great, though I didn't have the info at the time of writing. I got my hands on the book the table is based upon and can at least at family names. Good call on inconsistent info in the "development stage" and "cooking method"; some of the bug types had this info in the references, others didn't, I tried to include what I could without leaving too many blanks. I can add some "n/a".

Challenges and safety concerns:

-I will add a statement about why wild insects are more dangerous than farmed, good point.

-The image is a bit big and blurry. It needs some formatting work for sure, and is perhaps a tad alarmist. I wanted to try out the image uploading process, but this diagram may not cut it in the end (I was excited to find it in a reference with CC 4.0 open source license).

Overall:

- Good eye on the redundant reference

- The original article needs some work and restructuring. I wanted to create some of my own content before I blow up the original too much.

Again, thank you for your feedback, you did a really good job with this.

Cheers,

EaglesEyes1 (talk) 02:04, 11 March 2023 (UTC)


 * Hello EaglesEyes 1,
 * sorry for the late reply on this. Thank you for the feedback on my review, I hope it wasn't too much. Just going to answer your point-form replies to my notes:
 * Organoleptic Characteristics:
 * Hey Steve, funny that I ended up assigning your article to myself! The wine tasting just gave you away lol. I agree, there are definitely common flavors like when you said mild and compared how the two methods of cooking bring out those two different flavor profiles. Since you already have experience with wine tasting, then I am less worried about you walking the subjective flavor line.
 * -The flavor profile table
 * I do enjoy the table so far, I think it will be a great guide for people who want to dabble in the insect-tasting world. I am not sure if you included the reference or not for that book but if not maybe reference the book and say it is modeled after that table or something.
 * Challenges and safety concerns:
 * I still think it is a good image to use, it's just the formatting issue. If you need help with that let me know I put some pictures in my article already and kind of have a feel for it already. Wikipedia commons also has a lot of good images. If you are unsure how to use that I can also help.
 * Overall:
 * we talked about this in person already, but I understand the reluctance to want to restructure the original article; however, your added paragraph is great and I think it will really add to the article.

Regards, Vansam823