Quali-Sense

In the food and beverage industry, little can be done without the benefits of a professional panel of human assessors. A sensory panel is the most effective, most natural tool to describe the complex properties of food that trigger our five senses when consuming a product. Yet, sensory profiling is only useful when the panel is well-trained and the evaluations are validated.

Quali-Sense is the best companion a panel leader can hope for. Using a set of statistical tests, Quali-Sense detects the personal strengths and weaknesses of each assessor in your panel.

Discover the panelists’ sensitivity, reproducibility or cross-over issues for each attribute; check the global panel agreement and use this information to further train and qualify your panel, such that you can keep on developing unique products.

Brochure

5 panelist performance tests

Assessor Sensitivity
Assessor Reproducibility
Assessor Agreement
Assessor Crossover
Eggshell Correlation

Plots for direct data and result visualization

Spider Plot
Box plot
Spotty plot
Eggshell plot

Color-coded result tables for easy interpretation

Fig: Table of results (p-values) from the reproducibility test

Auto Generated Summary Report

Data import/export from/to Microsoft Office Excel or ASCII file formats (*.txt or *.csv), directly readable in The Unscrambler®.

This is what makes Quali-Sense unique:

Detect panelists who are not replicating their assessments accurately.
Locate panelists who misunderstood the scale.
Evaluate the sensitivity performance of each panelist.
Map the panelists’ needs for retraining.
Single-out meaningful descriptors for the product.
Select reliable panelists and attributes.
Average assessments for further analysis in The Unscrambler®.

Note

Prior to the installation of Quali-Sense, the user is requested to install

.NET Framework 2.0