Sensory and consumer research in food product design and development /
During the past thirty years, companies have recognized the consumer as the key driver for business and product success. This recognition has, in turn, generated its own drivers: sensory analysis and marketing research, leading first to a culture promoting the expert and then evolving into the syste...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Ames, Iowa :
Wiley-Blackwell,
2012
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| Edition: | Second edition |
| Series: | IFT Press series.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Author biographies
- 1. Emerging corporate knowledge needs: how and where does sensory fit?
- 2. Making use of existing knowledge and increasing its business value-the forgotten productivity tool
- 3. Understanding consumers' and customers' needs-the growth engine
- 4. Innovation's friend: integrated market and sensory input for food product design and development
- 5. A process to bring consumer mind-sets into a corporation
- 6. Developing relevant concepts
- 7. High-level product assessments
- 8. So what can sensory do for me (or for my company)?9 What types of tests do sensory researchers do to measure sensory response to the product? and ... why do they do them?
- 10. What can sensory researchers do to characterize products? and ... how does one select the best method?
- 11. So what are the practical considerations in actually running a test? what do I need to know? what does the rest of the company need to know?
- 12. Evolving sensory research
- 13. Addressable MindsTM and directed innovation: new vistas for the sensory community.
