Food Quality Flashcards
How do we define food quality?
- sensory Quality
- Nutritional Value
- Meets government and industry standards
- situational use
What are the four main sensory dimensions of food products?
Appearance
Aroma
Flavor
Texture
When do we apply most of our expectations of food?
When we first look at it
What are some of the things that we look for when assessing the appearance of food?
- The color of foods
- The surface characteristics of food
- The interior appearance of food
Aroma is related to food ____
Temperature.
When do we encounter Aroma?
Aromas are perceived prior to and during the consumption of food.
Is the tongue map of taste correct?
No it is not
What are the five basic tastes that the human tongue can taste?
- Sweet
- Sour
- Salty
- Bitter
- Umami
True or False?
Smell and sent are very strong connectors to memory
True.
When people are developing Alzheimer, people lose the ability to identify ____, making it a effective benchmark at determine the onset of the condition
odars and their associations
What is the most important attribute of ant food product?
Flavor
How is flavor constructed?
A combination of taste and smell.
Taste is almost always associated with flavour, but is it the only factor that influences flavor?
No, smell is a HUGE part of developing flavor.
True or false: Anywhere you have soft tissue up to your stomach, you have taste buds.
True.
When do we first assess the texture of foods?
Assessed initially with your eyes, then your hands, then your mouth.
The oral texture perception stage is dynamic. What are the stages?
- Initial stage (biting into the food)
- Mastication stage (the chewing of the food, and how the texture changes)
- Residual stage (anything that remains after chewing is completed, and before swallowing)
What is the Trigeminal sense?
An additional sensory parameter that stimulates the sense of heat and cold.
Spicy foods (hot) or Mint foods (cold)
How are the sensory qualities of food products assessed?
- Consumer sensory panels
- Trained panels (product development and quality control)
- Grading (tasting foods/drinks to ensure they meet a set of standards)
What is a Consumer Sensory panel?
- Groups of consumers who like the product come in to evaluate the product at hand.
What would the Consume Sensory Panel evaluate?
- Product liking
- product preference
- simple differences among similar products
What is a trained Sensory panel?
Participants with higher sensory acuity are trained to identify and quantify the sensory characteristics of a product.
What would be an example of a product that a Trained Sensory panel would assess?
-Wine evaluation for quality desalination systems such as vintner’s Quality Alliance (VQA)