Quali-Sense

Qualify your sensory data  

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.

 
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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 UnscramblerŽ.

 

 


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


Related Resource

Assessing Performance of a Sensory Panel-Panelist Monitoring and Tracking

Using Sensory to Predict Potential Market Share Growth

Sensory and Cognitive Factors in Food Preference


 
 
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