Esraa Hassan- Western Heads East
2021 Summer Remote Internship – Working with partners in Kigali, Rwanda
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Starting something that no one has done before
It may sound very exciting to work on developing a food product that no one has ever worked on before or tried to add probiotics to it. However, the process is very stressful and it requires so many trial and error rounds. Specifically speaking, the probiotics bacteria has to be put in an enriching medium…
Welcome back! Winter–2022
It has been SO LONG since I last wrote here! As promised, I will continue working on my project after summer. The plan was to work on it full term (Sep-April), but due to lab availability issues, I am was only able to work on it during the winter term. I am currently conducing bacterial…
Wrapping-up
Every story has to come to an end. And even though my story in summer has officially come to an end; I am happy to share that I extended my internship to the fall-winter session 2021-2022!! So I will get to spend eight more months of developing my newly-developed Probiotic-based Igikoma that I was working…
The second Affective Sensory Testing-August
Hello, Can you believe it is already August!! WOW! As promised, I will keep this post short. The first Affective Sensory Test was so insightful and provided clear direction of what should be tested in the Second Affective Sensory Testing. The panelist in this test was O’Neal only, unlike the first sensory test where all…
The first Affective Sensory Test-July
Hello! I promise you this one, and probably the next one as well, will be a bit short. This past period was crazy busy; joggling between drafting the Affective Sensory Tests forms that were administered to the panelists to take their feedback upon testing the newly developed Igikoma, and between perfecting the Igikoma’s flavors and…
My newly developed Igikoma
Hello again and again!! This past period was so exciting and I can not wait to share all the new updates with you regarding my newly developed formulation. Just to recap, as you know, I have eight main goals; coming up with new ingredient ratios to make the product instant, coming up with new flavors(potentially…
Initial experiments on Igikoma *.*
Hello again!! It is sunny nowadays so I hope you are enjoying your summer! So, this whole past period was all about replicating the Igikoma to be exactly like the one made in Rwanda. Not because my probiotic-based Igikoma that I am developing has to necessarily be similar to it, but rather to know how…
Setting the stage for Igikoma
Hello again! Whoever reads my blog and keeps up to date with what I post here, I wanna thank you so much from the bottom of my heart! Also, please feel free to reach out to me if you have any question. You will find my contact information in my very first blog post. So…
Getting started!
Hello! I will be writing my blog to share with you the updates of my internship from my home (Brescia’s Residence) in London, Ontario. It is officially the first week in the internship and I it was exciting for me to know that Aimee, one of our Rwandan partners and the legal representative of the…
Introducing myself
About me Hello! I am Esraa Hassan, a third-year student registered in the Honors Specialization in Nutrition and Dietetics program at Brescia University College. I enjoy exploring different cultures and learning about them for the end goal to be shape myself into a culturally competent and culturally sensitive professional. I have the black-belt degree in…
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Esraa Hassan– Western Heads East 