Sensory testing

• Paired preference test:

  • A taster gets too similar foods to sample
  • Taster indicates which one they prefer
• Hedonic rating test:

  • Tasters, try various different foods
  • Taste is rate the foods on a scale
• Triangle test:

  • Tasers, try three foods
  • One is slightly different
  • Taster select the one they think is different
• A not a test:

  • Tasters try a sample then two more
  • From the two samples, they pick the one that’s the same as the first
• Triangle tests are considered slightly more reliable because you are less likely to guess the right answer
• Ranking test:

  • After tasting food, they are ranked from lowest to highest based on a characteristic
• rating test:

  After tasting food, they are rated on a scale
• Profiling:

  • After food has been scaled, a food profile, for the average score is created
  • e.g star diagram