sensory evaluation

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OBJECTIVES

1. To distinguish the four basic qualities of taste – saline, sweet, bitter and sour.
2. To identify whether distinctions exist between samples and standard using different sensory test approach.
3. To assess the various cake samples using hedonic and rating scale.

INTRODUCTION

Sensory evaluation is a scientific disciplines that analyses and measures human response to the composition of food and drink. The examples of sensory evaluation included appearance, touch, odour, texture, temperature and taste.

Taste is a sensation created by receptors on the tongue. There are five tastes which are sweet, salty, sour, bitter and umami. Sweet is having the taste or flavour characteristics of sugar or honey while bitter is having harsh, disagreeably acrid taste like aspirin. On the other hand, salty is tasting of something that contained salt or seasoned with salt. Sour is having an acid taste, resembling that of vinegar, lemon juices and so on. Lastly, umami is a strong meaty taste imparted by glutamate and certain other amino acids which often considered being one of the basic taste sensations along with sweet, sour, bitter, and salty.

The methods used to determine whether the samples are different are Paired Comparison test, Duo-Trio test and Triangle test. Paired Comparison method is the method used to determine whether the two samples differ in a specified dimension such as sweetness or crispness. The two samples are presented to the panelist simultaneously and the panelist is asked to identify the sample that is higher in the specified sensory attribute.

Next, Duo – Trio test is a test which will determine whether or not a sensory difference exists between two samples. This method is particularly useful to determ...

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...ability for each assessor arriving at a correct response by guessing is ½.

Duo-trio

The assessors are presented with three products, one of which is identified as the control. Of the other two, one is identical to the control, while the other is the test product. The assessors are asked to state which product more closely resembles the control.

AXY – one known, two unknown, test is which unknown is the known (X = A or Y = A)

The probability for each assessor arriving at a correct response by guessing is ½.

Triangle

The assessors are presented with three products, two of which are identical and the other one different. The assessors are asked to state which product they believe is the odd one out.

(XXY) – three unknowns, test is which is odd one out (Y = 1, Y = 2, or Y = 3).

The probability for each assessor arriving at a correct response by guessing is 1/3.

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