Foods (May 2022)

Sensory Description and Consumer Hedonic Perception of Ultra-High Temperature (UHT) Milk

  • Yufang Su,
  • Houyin Wang,
  • Ziyan Wu,
  • Lei Zhao,
  • Wenqiang Huang,
  • Bolin Shi,
  • Jian He,
  • Sisi Wang,
  • Kui Zhong

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/foods11091350
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 9
p. 1350

Abstract

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Sensory characteristics of products play an essential role on the consumer’ s acceptability, preference and consuming behavior choice. The sensory profiles and consumer hedonic perception for 14 UHT milk products using sensory quantitatively descriptive analysis and a 9-point hedonic scale were investigated in this study. There were significant differences in the sensory attributes intensity and liking scores among the organic whole milk, ordinary whole milk, low-fat milk, and skimmed milk (p p < 0.05). These findings presented a potential strategy for identifying the key sensory attributes responsible for liking score differences among different kinds of UHT milk products.

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