A comparison of serial monadic and attribute-by-attribute protocols for simple descriptive analysis with untrained judges

Food Quality and Preference

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 440-449

  Ishii, Rie ^a   Chang, Hyung Kyung ^a   O'Mahony, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Absolute scaling strategy; Attribute by attribute; Congnitive strategies; Descriptive analysis; Flavor profiling; Relative scaling strategy; Scaling; Serial monadic

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750011183     PISSN: 09503293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2006.05.003     Document Type: Article

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