Sensory and consumer research in food product design and development /

During the past thirty years, companies have recognized the consumer as the key driver for business and product success. This recognition has, in turn, generated its own drivers: sensory analysis and marketing research, leading first to a culture promoting the expert and then evolving into the syste...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Moskowitz, Howard R.
Other Authors: Beckley, Jacqueline H., Resurreccion, Anna V. A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ames, Iowa : Wiley-Blackwell Pub., 2012.
Edition:2nd ed.
Series:IFT Press series.
Wiley Online Library.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Emerging Corporate Knowledge Needs: How and Where does Sensory Fit?
  • Making Use of Existing Knowledge and Increasing its Business Value₇The Forgotten Productivity Tool
  • Understanding Consumers' and Customers' Needs₇The Growth Engine
  • Innovation's Friend: Integrated Market and Sensory Input for Food Product Design and Development
  • A Process to Bring Consumer Mind-Sets into a Corporation
  • Developing Relevant Concepts
  • High-Level Product Assessments
  • So What Can Sensory do for me (Or for My Company)?
  • What Types of Tests do Sensory Researchers do to Measure Sensory Response to the Product? and ⁵ Why do they do them?
  • What can Sensory Researchers do to Characterize Products? and ⁵ How does One Select the Best Method?
  • So What are the Practical Considerations in Actually Running a Test? What do need to know? What does the Need to Know?
  • Evolving Sensory Research
  • Addressable Minds₉ and Directed Innovation: New Vistas for the Sensory Community
  • Index.