NCBI ROFL: Optimizing the sensory characteristics and acceptance of canned cat food: use of a human taste panel.

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“18 flavour attributes (sweet, sour/acid, tuna, herbal, spicy, soy, salty, cereal, caramel, chicken, methionine, vegetable, offaly, meaty, burnt flavour, prawn, rancid and bitter) and four texture dimensions (hardness, chewiness, grittiness and viscosity) were generated to describe the sensations elicited by 13 commercial pet food samples.”

June 23rd, 2009 10:50 PM by ncbi rofl in NCBI ROFL, eat me | 3 comments | RSS feed | Trackback >

3 Responses to “NCBI ROFL: Optimizing the sensory characteristics and acceptance of canned cat food: use of a human taste panel.”

  1. 1.   Deray Says:

    Eww!

  2. 2.   Anonymous Says:

    What?!? No beefy? WTF?

  3. 3.   neandrothal Says:

    I'm not sure if I'd recognize "offaly" even if the cat food did taste that way.

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