From profiles to practice: Communicating the sensory characteristics of apples to the wider audience through simplified descriptive profiles

LWT

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 46-55

  Seppä, Laila ^a   Railio, Jenna ^a   Mononen, Riikka ^a   Tahvonen, Risto ^b   Tuorila, Hely ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Apple; Descriptive analysis; Fruit; Lexicon; Profile

Indexed keywords

TEXTURES;

APPLE; CONSUMER INFORMATION; DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS; FIRST PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS; LEXICON; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS; PROFILE; SENSORY CHARACTERISTICS;

FRUITS;

MALUS X DOMESTICA;

EID: 84857109300     PISSN: 00236438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lwt.2012.01.003     Document Type: Article

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