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Academic Consortium Publications for April 2022

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Recently published research leads us to believe that Hank Williams, Sr. did not pen the lament “There’s a tear in my beer / ‘Cause I’m cryin’ for you, dear / You are on my lonely mind” in a white booth in a sensory lab. The study, published in Food Quality and Preference, is unrelated to […]

Academic Consortium Publications for March 2022

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How does one go about gathering food opinions from preadolescents? 🤔 A just-accepted Food Quality and Preference manuscript proposes an answer: emojis. 😃 So, for March 2022, we highlight this paper, titled “Development of an emoji-based self-report measurement tool to measure emotions elicited by foods in preadolescents” [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodqual.2022.104585] by Sick and colleagues at the University […]

Academic Consortium Publications for February 2022

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We found 10 papers published in February 2022 by members of Compusense’s academic consortium! There are people who advocate for using trained panels to do sensory descriptive analysis. There are people who advocate for using consumers to profile products using methods that do not require training. We are not dogmatic on this point, because we […]

Academic Consortium Publications for January 2022

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We found 16 papers published in January 2022 by members of Compusense’s academic consortium. One paper that catches our attention is a Food Quality and Preference manuscript by Yang et al. (2022) on evaluation of beer under two experimental conditions, a virtual-reality condition and an evoked-context condition. Student subjects who donned VR goggles found themselves […]

Academic Consortium Publications for December 2021

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For the final month of 2021, we had 16 publications come from the Academic Consortium. We are so excited to see the research that will be done in 2022. You can view all of the 16 publications below.

Academic Consortium Publications for August 2021

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August broke the record for number of publications coming out of the Academic Consortium with 23! There was a large variety in the different studies published from protein beverages to descriptive analysis done on California grown avocados. All of the publications are provided below.

Quality

Quality

Quality test methods are used to evaluate a product based on its sensory attributes and overall consumer perception to ensure it meets certain standards of excellence and consistency. These methods provide a consumer-centric assessment of product quality, ensure consistency and adherence to quality standards and drive continuous improvement and customer satisfaction. Examples include, but are not limited to, Shelf Life, Degree of Difference,

Difference from Control, In/Out, etc.

Quality test methods are used to evaluate a product based on its key attributes to ensure it meets specific standards of excellence for consistency. These methods provide an internal assessment of the product quality to adhere to quality standards and achieve customer satisfaction. Examples include, but are not limited to, Shelf-Life, Degree of Difference, Difference from Control, and In & Out methods.