The sensory properties of foods are the most important reason people eat the foods they eat. What those properties are and how we best measure those properties are critical to understanding food and eating behavior. Appearance, flavor, texture, and even the sounds of food can impart a desire to eat or cause us to dismiss the food as unappetizing, stale, or even inappropriate from a cultural standpoint. This Special Issue focuses on how sensory properties are measured, the specific sensory properties of various foods, and consumer behavior related to which properties might be most important in certain situations and how consumers use sensory attributes to make decisions about what they will eat. This Special Issue contains both research papers and review articles.
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mayonnaise Choquet integral multi-attribute time-intensity (MATI) data foods fuzzy measure specialty food monosodium glutamate (MSG) food label plant breeding consumer test perception multi-criteria decision-making interaction indices multicollinearity unique food products sensory thresholds natural quality control Shapley value processing thermosensing willingness to pay esophageal cancer cross-cultural affective test carryover effects Prunus dulcis hot beverages sensory acceptability mixed models chicken soup sensory bias product development temperature methodological study relative importance of attributes to liking product improvement nonlinear models consumer lexicon descriptive sensory analysis emulsification ingredient hydroSOStainable products temporal drivers of liking (TDOL) texture MSG substitutes functional data analysis food ethnic food descriptive analysis LMG statistic shelf life sensory evaluation sensory coffee fruit chews descriptive