Sensory analysis of broccoli over time: Consumer defined critical attributes and evaluation of digital photographs in comparison to real product appearance

Food Quality and Preference

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 48-52

  Garitta, Lorena ^a,c   Hough, Guillermo ^a,d   Chaves, Alicia ^b,c  

^a Instituto Superior Experimental de Tecnologia Alimentaria   (Argentina)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN Y DESARROLLO EN CRIOTECNOLOGÍA DE ALIMENTOS CIDCA   (Argentina)

^c Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^d Centro Científico y Tecnológico Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Broccoli; Critical attribute; Digital photographs; Quality scoring method

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875275754     PISSN: 09503293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2013.02.001     Document Type: Article

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