Oregano essential oil: Effect on sensory acceptability

Nutrition and Food Science

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 574-582

  Cattelan, Marília Gonçalves ^a   de Castilhos, Maurício Bonatto Machado ^a   da Silva, Débora Cristina Moraes Niz ^a   Conti Silva, Ana Carolina ^a   Hoffmann, Fernando Leite ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Essential oil; Multidimensional scaling; Oregano; Sensory evaluation; Spice

Indexed keywords

ORIGANUM;

EID: 84930851373     PISSN: 00346659     EISSN: 17586917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/NFS-02-2015-0014     Document Type: Article

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