Vocabulary
Sensory Evaluation
Appearance and aroma
Sensory Evalution
Uniform Evaluations
100
Scientifically testing food, using the human senses of sight, smell, taste, touch, and hearing.
what is Sensory Evaluation?
100

Scientist identify samples with 

What are 3 digit codes

100
Can be a sign of quality or ripeness.
what is Appearance?
100
Groups of people who evaluate food samples.
what is Sensory Evaluation panels?
100
Testing takes place in a controlled atmosphere.
what is Minimize distractions?
200
Qualities of a food identified by the senses.
what is Sensory Characteristics?
200

What is the first way we experience food?

What is by tasting?

200

A big source of pleasure in most lives, a complex realm of satisfaction both physiological and emotional.

what is taste?

200
These panels fall into three main groups.
what is highly trained experts, laboratory panels, and consumer panels?
200
Knowing how one sense can affect another, researches may ask irrelevant questions.
what is Minimize bias?
300
A decorative arrangement added to food and drink.
what is Garnish?
300
Researchers assign all food tastes to one of four broad categories: sweet, salty, bitter and __________

What is sour

300
Based on habits and preconceived notions.
what is Appealing Appearance?
300
These people judge the quality of a product, using standards set by the food industry.
what is Highly trained experts?
300
Testing is usually done in the morning or mid-afternoon, when people are most responsive and alert.
what is Help evaluators use their sense to the fullest?
400
Unable to distinguish between the flavors of some foods.
what is Taste Blind?
400

True or False:In combination with sensory testing, objective data enables food consumers to make accurate predictions about a food’s potential success in the marketplace

What is false?

400

Associated with spoiled foods and alkaloids.

what is bitter foods/tastes?

400
Usually small groups that work at a company's laboratory.
what is Laboratory panels?
400
Used to cleanse mouth after fatty foods.
what is Warm water?
500
A salt that interacts with other ingredients to enhance salty and sour tastes.
what is Monosodium Glutamate or MSG?
500

________ ________ is a like or dislike that is linked to past positive or negative experiences.

what is taste bias?

500

Meaty/earthy taste produced by amino acids

what is umami?

500
Large consumer panels that test foods outside the laboratory.
what is Consumer panels?
500
Rinse their mouths, usually with water, between samples.
what is Food testers?
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