A blind experiment in the kitchen. I tried different sprats and chose the most delicious.

During a blind test, we determine which of the sprats are the most delicious. Three people participated in the experiment and evaluated the sprats.

1. Sprat oil smoked from Graal (Poland)

The first entrant: mild taste, reminiscent of herring, normal consistency, more delicious.

The second participant: there is no taste of the fish itself, bitter, the meat is chewed into a rubber mass, as if the sprats themselves were too big.

The third participant: the fish is small, sprats are acidic, the consistency is not very rubbery.

2. Sprat in oil from Kaija (Latvia)

The first participant: delicious, pleasant, of good consistency.

The second participant: a balanced taste, a very tasty sprat, a pleasant texture, and the taste of both fish and smoked is felt.

Third participant: normal size of fish, delicious sprats, maybe a little more salty than the first.

3. “Large sprats” (Latvia)

• The largest sprats, it is interesting that the composition does not include sprats, but herring.

The first participant: similar to the second, perhaps a little fatter.

The second participant: tasteless, the aftertaste is unpleasant, it seems that some strange spices have been added, although the texture is too soft but not rubbery.

The third participant – feels the smokiest taste, interesting spices, the second tastier and very large sprats.

4. Sprat in oil RIGA GOLD (Latvia)

• Note that sprats did not have a tail.

The first participant: the taste is the most different of all, the worst of all where I have tasted before, odorless, the least fussy, the most tasteless.

The second entrant: the fattest, the oiliest taste is felt and the smoky taste strong, but it does not seem to be a very natural medium flavor.

Third participant: very strange, not very nice, some foreign taste, I would not like to buy sprats like that, very smoked.

5. Sprat smoked in amber fish oil (Latvia)

• These sprats also had no tails, and some of the fish were so closely attached, as if they were doubles.

The first participant: similar to the fourth, but these are tastier, the consistency is normal.

The second participant: I feel the taste of fish the most, the less smoky taste, it seems the most natural, the least soggy, I would choose these because the most delicious sprats.

The third participant: delicious, the size of the fish is good, although the consistency turned out to be a bit spicy, but the taste in the mouth is pleasant.

• We noticed that with the second test, for the first participant, sprats, which were the tastiest (No. 1), became the worst at all: tasteless, odorless, and salt-free. Maybe it looked like this because the first sprat was tested.

Sprat no. 2 and no. 5.