TY - JOUR
T1 - Application of "magnetic tongue" to the sensory evaluation of extra virgin olive oil
AU - Lauri, Ilaria
AU - Pagano, Bruno
AU - Malmendal, Anders
AU - Sacchi, Raffaele
AU - Novellino, Ettore
AU - Randazzo, Antonio
N1 - Copyright © 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
PY - 2013/10/15
Y1 - 2013/10/15
N2 - The perception of odour and flavour of foods is a complicated physiological and psychological process that cannot be explained by simple models. Unfortunately, taste is not objective, but partially subjective and it depends also on the mood of the taster. Generally, sensory analysis is used to describe sensory features. The availability of a number of instrumental techniques has opened up the possibility to calibrate the sensory perception. Here we have tested the potentiality of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy as "magnetic tongue" to measure sensory descriptors in extra-virgin olive oil. We were able to correlate the NMR metabolomic fingerprints of extra-virgin olive oil to the sensory descriptors: tomato, bitter, pungent, rosemary, artichoke, sweet, grassy and leaf.
AB - The perception of odour and flavour of foods is a complicated physiological and psychological process that cannot be explained by simple models. Unfortunately, taste is not objective, but partially subjective and it depends also on the mood of the taster. Generally, sensory analysis is used to describe sensory features. The availability of a number of instrumental techniques has opened up the possibility to calibrate the sensory perception. Here we have tested the potentiality of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy as "magnetic tongue" to measure sensory descriptors in extra-virgin olive oil. We were able to correlate the NMR metabolomic fingerprints of extra-virgin olive oil to the sensory descriptors: tomato, bitter, pungent, rosemary, artichoke, sweet, grassy and leaf.
U2 - 10.1016/j.foodchem.2012.10.135
DO - 10.1016/j.foodchem.2012.10.135
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 23692755
SN - 0308-8146
VL - 140
SP - 692
EP - 699
JO - Food Chemistry
JF - Food Chemistry
IS - 4
ER -