Food Processing and Related Trades Workers

How to become a food and beverage taster or grader

Official title: Food and beverage taster/grader

Also called: Beverage taster, Coffee and tea taster, Coffee taster, Coffee tasting expert, Coffee tasting specialist, Farm milk monitor, Food and beverage (F&B) grader, Food and beverage (F&B) taster, Food grader, Food product grader, Food taster, Fruit inspector

Food and beverage taster/grader inspects, tastes and grades various types of agricultural products, food and beverages.

Main tasks

Inspecting, testing, tasting and smelling agricultural products, food and beverages at various stages of processing
Determining quality, acceptability to consumer tastes and approximate value of products and grading them into appropriate classes
Discarding inferior products
Recording the grade and/or identification numbers on tags, receiving, or sales sheets
Weighing and measuring products

Ways in

Polytechnic or ITE: ITE course (Nitec or Higher Nitec). Related ITE courses: Higher Nitec in Applied Food Science. Peernovo matched these from course names; ITE does not publish which jobs each course leads to.; Polytechnic diploma. Related diplomas: Diploma in Food & Beverage Business (Nanyang Polytechnic). Peernovo matched these from course names; polytechnics do not publish which jobs each course leads to.

Pay · Outlook · AI and this job

Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.

Questions people ask

How do I become a food and beverage taster or grader?

Ways in include: ITE course (Nitec or Higher Nitec); Polytechnic diploma.

Will AI change the work of a food and beverage taster or grader?

Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.

Sources

International Labour Organization, Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure (ILO Working Paper 140, Gmyrek et al.) (ILO Working Paper 140, May 2025, Annex Table A1), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026

Updated 4 October 2026