Students from different years conducted a survey at a local shop to research the availability of foods from different countries. Year 1 looked at Italian foods and found many pasta, fruit, and drink options. Year 2 struggled to find foods from Romania, Greece or Cyprus. Year 3 identified a variety of Polish foods like apples, cheese and meat. Year 4 cataloged the large selection of local Estonian dairy products, breads, meats, canned goods and juices available. The survey showed a good selection of Italian and Polish foods but few from southeastern Europe, and emphasized the prominence of Estonian agricultural products in the store.

1. Food survey
JANUARY 2013
Photos by P.Sirel and S.Lepik

2. Toomatare shop in Kose-Uuemõisa

3. Food survey in Estonia
Students conducted surveys in our local shop about foreign and local traditional food and
traditional products.
Year 1 - Italian food
Year 2 - Romanian, Greek, and Cypriot food
Year 3 - Polish food
Year 4 - Estonian food

4. In the shop

5. Children said that the task was interesting and rather easy. Only students of Year 2 were
very unhappy because they could not find any food from Romania, Greece or Cyprus in
our shop. Students of Year 1 said the task was easy because they could see the Italian
flag on the packages. Year 3 and 4 had difficulties in finding the name of the country
because the print was very small and it was difficult to read the text. A lot of products
have the marking MADE in EU. So one can’t tell in which country the food is actually
made.

6. Italian food – by Year 1

7. Italian food

8. Polish food – by Year 3
“Fruits and vegetables
Apples „Campion“, „Legol“
Onions
Grain products
Noodles „Knorr“
Muesli „Crunchy“, „Sante“
Grain flakes „Puff“
Grain rings „Ring“
Different biscuits
Oil and cooking fats
Margarine „Delma“
Baking margarine „EveSol“
Margarine „Rama“
Milk and dairy products
Raw cheese Creme Bonjour
Cheese „Gouda“
Ice cream „Big Milk“, „Carte D`or“
Yogurt „Activia“

9. Polish food

10. Polish food
Meat and meat products
Smoked rib „Kaarli“
Bacon „Kaarli“
Smoked ham „Kaarli“
Tongue in jelly
Drinks
7 UP
„Lipton“ ICE teas
Energy drinks „Euphoria“, „Adrenaline“, „Power“
„Pepsi-Cola“
Canned food
„Mexican salad“
Canned corn
Sweets
Different sweets

11. Estonian food – by Year 4
Dairy products:
ALMA- curd creams, small yogurts, yogurt for
drinking, unflavoured yogurt, milk, buttermilk,
10% cream, sour cream, whipped cream.
FARMI – 2,5 % milk, sour cream, yogurt, curds.
TERE – buttermilk, 2,5 % milk, yogurts for
drinking , pudings, curd creams, unflavoured
yogurt.
TERVIS – curds
EKSTRA – cottage cheese

12. Estonian food
Cheeses – Saare juust, Hollandi leibjuust, Eesti,
Saare kadaka, Pärnu, Vene juust, Tartu juust,
Võru juust
FELIX – Sauces for hamburgers and chips.
Mayo –Jaani, Salvest, Kodune
Butter – Võideks Spreed, Taluvõi, Eesti või,
Võidel, Saaremaa, Võideks

13. Estonian food
Sausages and meat products:
RANNAROOTSI- sliced sausages, hams,
frankfurters, different smoked sausages.
RAKVERE – frankfurters, meatballs, ham,
sausages, chops.
SUITSUTARE – sausage with cheese, smoked
sausage.
KAARLI – meatballs, sausages, chops.
TALL EGG – eggs, sausages, hams, frankfurters,
chicken filet.

14. Estonian food
Grain products:
SALVEST – porridges
HELEN – cereals, rice flakes, oat flakes,
buckwheat.
KALEV – wheat-flour, powder for muffins,
pancake flour.
TARTU MIIL- pizza flour, kama, rice, macaroni.
KATI – oat flakes, groats, semolina.
VESKI MATI – different rice, buckwheat

15. Estonian food
Canned food:
KAPTEN – herring filet, smoked sprats.
TALL EGG – chicken chips, chicken filet.
RANNAMÕISA- canned pork, canned beef,
canned turkey.
FELIX – ketchup, salad dressings, Italian sauce,
sun-dried tomatoes in sauce, mustard and
honey sauce, garlic sauce, pickles, pumpkin
salad, sliced beet root.

16. Estonian food
SALVEST - ketchup, Chinese sauce, Thai sauce,
Mexican sauce, bolognese sauce with chicken,
pickles, green peas, different soups, carrots
for salad, cucumber for salad, tomato paste,
tomato sauce.
OLIVIA – rape oil
MEIE MARI – different jams
MESIMUMM – honey

17. Estonian food
Spices:
SANTA MARIA – different spices
Fruit and vegetables:
Carrot, cucumber, cabbage, potatoes, beet,
swede.

18. Estonian food
Bread:
EESTI PAGAR – different breads, white bread,
barley bread.
EURO LEIB – different breads, white bread,
barley bread.
LEIBUR – different breads, white bread, barley
bread.

19. Estonian food
Baked products:
EESTI PAGAR – blackberry pie,
NEIO – different pies and cakes.
Sweets:
Dried fruit, raisins.
KALEV – bonbons, marmalade, chocolates,
marzipans, biscuits.
PÕLVAMAA – different biscuits.
NEIO – plum cake, plaited bun with apples.
VÄIKE VÄÄNIK – gingerbreads.
BALS NACK – garlic bread, potato crisps, corn
balls, Lotte’s corn sticks.

20. Estonian food
Frozen food:
PREMIA – ice creams, ice cream cones,
vegetable mixtures, meat dumplings.
BALBIINO – ice creams
HÄRMAVILI – frozen vegetables
MARJAMAA TALU- frozen berries
ESVA – fish fingers

21. Estonian food
Juices:
Aura, Põltsamaa , Largo, treacle, Ice-Fruit,
Cappy

22. OÜ Toomatarele
Comenius projekti „Having culture as a kite, we
travel European skies“ tegevuste läbiviimisele
kaasaaitamise eest.
Kose-Uuemõisa Signe Sirel
03.06.2013 Direktor
Sirje Lepik
Koordinaator
This was the letter of gratitude to
our local shop for the cooperation
and help.

23. To sum up:
The students found out that we have a lot of different Italian food (drinks, pasta, fruits). It was
surprising for them that in winter we could buy Italian grapes and mandarines.
The variaty of Polish food is rather big (apples, onions, dairy products, margarine, meat
products, soft drinks, canned food, sweets).
As it was expected the number of Estonian products was large.