{"id":83575,"date":"2015-03-15T08:10:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-15T06:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/83575\/household-consumer-league-hold-blind-taste-test\/"},"modified":"2015-03-13T13:34:33","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T11:34:33","slug":"household-consumer-league-hold-blind-taste-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/03\/15\/household-consumer-league-hold-blind-taste-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Household Consumer League hold blind taste test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Household Consumer League recently held a blind taste testing of hot cross buns and marshmallow Easter eggs.<\/p>\n<p>The Household Consumer League, which has been in existence for over 40 years, is a consumer advocacy group which participates in the creation and revising of consumer goods and service standards, as well as resolving consumer issues.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The judges, who volunteered for the position, are members of the consumer league.<\/p>\n<p>They tasted each product from a number of predetermined stores, and scored each of the buns and eggs.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The focus was on the freshness, size, spice, fruit and taste.<\/p>\n<p>The group hopes that, through taste tests such as these, stores will be able to improve their standards.<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='be1f706e40e863dd9190924eaa955fe7'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More bang for your buck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":83603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[8297,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,6858],"class_list":["post-83575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-community-2","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-the-household-consumer-league"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","The Household Consumer League"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}