A professional who develops, tests, and promotes various types of food products. Responsibilities include:

• Selects recipes from conventional cookbooks, or develops new recipes for company food products.
• Prepares and cooks food according to recipe to test quality and standardize procedures and ingredients.
• Evaluates prepared item as to texture, appearance, flavor, and nutritional value.
• Records amount and kinds of ingredients and various test results.
• Suggests new products, product improvements, and promotions for company use or for resale to dealers, manufacturers, or other users.
• Presents food items at demonstration functions to promote desired qualities, nutritional values, and related characteristics.
• Samples shipments to verify weights, measures, coding data, and other evaluations for product control.
• Answers consumer mail.