Application of "magnetic tongue" to the sensory evaluation of extra virgin olive oil

Ilaria Lauri; Bruno Pagano; Anders Malmendal; Raffaele Sacchi; Ettore Novellino; Antonio Randazzo

doi:10.1016/j.foodchem.2012.10.135

Application of "magnetic tongue" to the sensory evaluation of extra virgin olive oil

Ilaria Lauri, Bruno Pagano, Anders Malmendal, Raffaele Sacchi, Ettore Novellino, Antonio Randazzo

Inflammation, Metabolism and Oxidation

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Journal	Food Chemistry
Volume	140
Issue number	4
Pages (from-to)	692-9
Number of pages	8
ISSN	0308-8146
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodchem.2012.10.135
Publication status	Published - 15 Oct 2013

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