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Food Preferences of Men and Women by Sensory Evaluation Versus Questionnaire
Author(s) -
Weaver Michelle R.,
Brittin Helen C.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
family and consumer sciences research journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.372
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 1552-3934
pISSN - 1077-727X
DOI - 10.1177/1077727x01293006
Subject(s) - preference , consumption (sociology) , food frequency questionnaire , sensory system , food preference , scale (ratio) , psychology , food consumption , medicine , demography , environmental health , food science , mathematics , biology , geography , social science , statistics , cartography , sociology , agricultural economics , economics , cognitive psychology
The purpose of the study was to determine food preferences of men and women by sensory evaluation versus questionnaire. Men and women university students ( N = 110, mean age = 21.5 ± 2.5 years) used a questionnaire containing 54 foods to rate on a 9‐point hedonic scale and to indicate frequency of consumption. Two weeks later, they tasted 12 of the foods and rated them on a 9‐point hedonic scale. Preferences for most (69%) foods did not differ ( p > .05) for men and women, although preferences for most of the other foods were greater ( p < .05) for women. Preference and frequency of consumption were positively related ( p < .05). Preferences for one half of the foods were the same ( p >.05) for sensory evaluation and questionnaire, although preferences for most of the other foods were less ( p < .05) for sensory evaluation.