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Rapid Sensory Profiling Techniques: Applications in New Product Development and Consumer Research
Author(s): Julien Delarue
- Publisher: Woodhead Publishing
- Publication Date: 19 Aug. 2016
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 584 pages
- ISBN-10: 0081013329
- ISBN-13: 9780081013328
Book Description
Sensory analysis is an important tool in new product development. There has recently been significant development in the methods used to capture sensory perception of a product. Rapid Sensory Profiling Techniques provides a comprehensive review of rapid methods for sensory analysis that can be used as alternatives or complementary to conventional descriptive methods. Part one looks at the evolution of sensory perception capture methods. Part two focuses on rapid methods used to capture sensory perception, and part three covers their applications in new product development and consumer research. Finally, part four explores the applications of rapid methods in testing specific populations.
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Sensory analysis is an important tool in new product development. Rapid Sensory Profiling Techniques provides a comprehensive review of rapid methods for sensory analysis.
About the Author
Julien Delarue is Assistant Professor of Sensory & Consumer Science at the University of California Davis. His research focuses on methods to measure consumer sensory perception and preferences and on their effective use in R&D. He seeks to develop high validity consumer-oriented methods. His research explores the role of context in hedonic measures using immersive environments and digital technologies. He also works to develop and validate rapid and flexible descriptive analysis methods with application to new product development and consumer research. Formerly a Professor at AgroParisTech in the food science and technology joint research unit with INRAE and Université Paris-Saclay, he has served as the Chair of the French Society for Sensory Analysis (SFAS) and of the European Sensory Science Society (E3S).
