Sensory evaluation of food: principles and practices

This volume covers all the basic techniques of sensory testing, from simple discrimination tests to home use placements for consumers. It provides fundamental theories, psychological and statistical, that form the basis and rationalefor sensory test design. Statistics used in sensory evaluation are also demonstrated both as stand-alone material presented in appendices and as integratedapplications in the context of appropriate sensory methods. Chapters are constructed so that beginning students who want only the practical aspects of conducting sensory test will see clear instruction on how test should be conducted. Advanced students and practitioners will enjoy the more detailed sections onrationale and related issues. The first volume of this book, which has not been updated since 1998, still remains a classroom and research favorite. Sensory evaluation is a required class for any Food Science undergraduate major, andthis has served for nearly a decade as one of the only texts. Comprehensive in scholarship and represents divergent philosophies in the field in a balancedmanner INDICE: Preface.- Appendix I - Basic Statistical Concepts for Sensory Evaluation.- Appendix A.- Nonparametric and Binomial-based Statistical Methods.- Statistical Appendix III- Analysis of Variance.- Appendix IV- Correlation, Regression and Measures of association.- Appendix V - Statistical Power and Test Sensitivity.- Chapter 1.- Physiological and Psychological Foundations of Sensory Function.- Principles of Good Practice.- Discrimination Testing.- Similarity, Equivalence Testing and Discrimination Theory.- Measurement of Sensory Thresholds.- Scaling.- Time-intensity Methods.- Context Effects and Biases in Sensory Judgment.- Descriptive Judgment.- Texture Evalution.- Color and Appearance.- Preference Testing.- Acceptance Testing.- Consumer Field Tests and Questionnaire Design.- Qualitative Consumer Research Methods.- Quality Control and Shelf-life (Stability) Testing.- Data relationships and multivariate applications.- Strategic Research.- Tables A-Q.

• ISBN: 978-1-4419-6487-8
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 850
• Fecha Publicación: 29/09/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés