Sensory Evaluation Practices,, Herbert Stone

The fifth edition is comprehensively reorganized, revised, and updated. Key highlights of this book include:

• A more intuitive organization
• Statistical methods adapted to suit a more basic consumer methodology
• Rearranged material to reflect advances in Internet testing
• New time-intensity testing methods
• New chapters on advanced sensory processes, quality control testing, advertising claims, and business challenges
• New material on mapping and sorting, graph theory, multidimensional scaling, and flash profiling techniques
• Explanations of theories of integrity, amplitude, and balance and blend
• Updated appendices for spectrum method scales
• Updated references

Sensory Evaluation Techniques remains a relevant and flexible resource, providing how-to information for a wide variety of users in industry, government, and academia who need the most current information to conduct effective sensory evaluation and interpretations of results. It also supplies students with the necessary theoretical background in sensory evaluation methods, applications, and interpretations.

Analytical methods for identifying and assessing the flavor compounds present in the beverages are included that address both volatile and non-volatile techniques, along with rapid methods of assessment. Case studies highlight the testing of different types of alcoholic beverages running the entire gamut of methods and the appropriate subset of methods. Also included is information of data analyses with the appropriate R-codes to allow practitioners to use the book as a handbook to analyze their own data.

• Uniquely focused on alcoholic beverages and their assessment
• Includes real-world information for practical application
• Presents a full range of methodologies, providing key comparative insights