試食

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 試食(ししょく) means tasting food to try its flavor.
• Basic usage: It is used for trying a new food or gathering opinions from people who tasted it.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Modifying the person who tasted it
  • 試食した客 means customers who tasted it. The preceding clause describes what those customers did.
• The source of an opinion
  • In 客から, から identifies the customers as the source of the opinions.