FOOD TECHNOLOGY

FOOD PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

SENSORY EVALUATION AND TESTING

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What is Consistency?
A
How well 1 part of a food slides past another without breaking
B
Refers to the size of the particles in a food product
C
How easily a food shatters or breaks apart
D
Food’s resistance to pressure
E
Thinness or thickness of a product
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Consistency. The thinness or thickness of a food product, which can be measured in terms of pourability. Taste Test Panel. A group of people who evaluate the flavor, texture, appearance, and aroma of food products.

Detailed explanation-2: -The property that describes a fluid’s thickness or thinness is called VISCOSITY.

Detailed explanation-3: -Sensory tests may be divided into three groups based on the type of information that they provide. The three types are discrimination, descriptive, and affective.

Detailed explanation-4: -Properties such as shape, size, colour and state of a substance are called its physical properties.

Detailed explanation-5: -In sensory science, the acceptable definition of texture is “..the sensory and functional manifestation of the structural, mechanical and surface properties of food detected through the senses of vision, hearing, touch, and kinesthetics.” (Szczesniak, 2002)

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