In the evaluation of new incarnations of existing products, difference testing is among the
most commonly used sensory techniques. However, although difference testing is a …

In the food industry, overall discrimination tests are used with untrained/naïve consumer
subjects to compare multiple test stimuli against a fixed reference, such as a company's gold …

The well-known sensory discrimination method of Tetrads is a special case of the 'M+ N'with
M= N= 2. This paper extends the method of Tetrads to a general situation, ie, the 'M+ N'with …

Introduction Infants with severe or recurrent transitional hypoglycaemia continue to have
high rates of adverse neurological outcomes and new treatment approaches are needed …

Psychometric functions for discrimination tests, which connect probabilities of correct
response, pc, with Thurstonian discriminal distances, d′, are of theoretical and practical …

Reducing sodium content in foods and beverages has become very important, and great
efforts are being made to achieve this while maintaining overall taste/acceptance of food …

Discrimination testing forms an important first step to many other sensory tests in the food
industry. In some instances, it is the test on which important go/no-go decisions are based …

A commonly used approach for quantifying effect sizes in sensory difference testing is the so-
called “Proportion of Discriminators” or “Proportion of Distinguishers” model. Such effect …

The recurring need to assess product reformulations has kept difference testing at the
forefront of sensory science. Within the realm of difference testing, the Tetrad test has risen …

In the fast moving consumer goods industry, unspecified (overall) sensory difference tests
are commonly used with sensory panels to compare multiple types of stimuli against a gold …