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AUTHOR
Virginie Herbreteau
Development of a sensory tool to assess overall liking for the fatty, salty and sweet sensations
Abstract Understanding the origin of the overconsumption of too high levels of sucrose, sodium chloride and lipids in foods raises the question of the influence of the hedonics for these sensations. To better understand this relationship, a sensory tool that enables measurement of liking towards sweet, salty or fatty sensations is required. This liking towards a sensation has to be understood as an overall attractiveness of the sensation. Instruments already existing were unsatisfactory as including a limited number of foods not representative of the overall sensation. A set of hedonic tests, named PrefSens, was developed to measure an overall liking for fatty, salty or sweet sensations. Ea…
What does it matter for consumers: sensory pleasure or health? A willingness to exchange approach
International audience; Sensory pleasure and health concerns are two often conflicting dimensions of food choices. Consequently, it is important to develop methods to assess the relative importance of immediate sensory pleasure and future health benefits in consumers’ decisions. In the present experiment, the impact of sensory characteristics and nutritional labelling was examined for a snack product: chips. Three variants of chips were used: a regular recipe, a low salt version, and a low fat one. They were presented to 124 consumers in three different conditions: blind condition where consumers tasted the chips, product’s label (the expected liking was evaluated), and full information con…
A comparison between nine laboratories performing triangle tests
WOS: 000299451400001; International audience; Fifteen groups of participants in nine laboratories performed triangle tests with two pairs of soft drinks. Groups differed in practice level with triangle tests: eight groups of 60 consumers who were not used to triangle test, three groups of qualified assessors who have already performed a few triangle tests, and four groups of trained assessors with a more extensive practice of triangle tests; qualified and trained groups included 9 or 18 assessors. The soft drinks were made from syrups at two levels of dilution in order to achieve about 55% of correct responses to test for difference and about 40% of correct responses to test for similarity.…