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Sensory Characterization of a Ready‐to‐eat Sweetpotato Breakfast Cereal by Descriptive Analysis
Author(s) -
Dansby M.A.,
BovellBenjamin A.C.
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
journal of food science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 150
eISSN - 1750-3841
pISSN - 0022-1147
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2621.2003.tb05736.x
Subject(s) - ipomoea , sensory analysis , food science , flavor , descriptive statistics , crop , mathematics , quantitative descriptive analysis , sensory system , breakfast cereal , microbiology and biotechnology , biology , horticulture , agronomy , statistics , neuroscience
The sweetpotato [ Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam ], an important industry in the United States, has been selected as a candidate crop to be grown on future long‐duration space missions by NASA. Raw sweetpotato roots were processed into flour, which was used to formulate ready‐to‐eat breakfast cereal (RTEBC). Twelve trained panelists evaluated the sensory attributes of the extruded RTEBC using descriptive analysis. The samples were significantly different ( P < 0.05) for all attributes. Twelve perceived sensory attributes, which could be used to differentiate the appearance, texture, and flavor of sweetpotato RTEBC, were described. The data could be used to optimize the RTEBC and for designing studies to test its consumer acceptance.