Hedonic Responses and Individual Definitions of an Ideal Apple as Predictors of Choice

Journal of Sensory Studies

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 346-357

  Seppä, Laila ^a   Railio, Jenna ^a,c   Vehkalahti, Kimmo ^a   Tahvonen, Risto ^b   Tuorila, Hely ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c Oy Lantmännen Unibake Ab Finland ^*  (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDIVIDUAL PREFERENCE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION MODELS; MEAN AGES; SENSORY ATTRIBUTES; SENSORY PROPERTIES;

INDUSTRY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

FRUITS;

EID: 84885771390     PISSN: 08878250     EISSN: 1745459X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/joss.12059     Document Type: Article

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