August Content Spotlight: Sensory and Consumer Sciences

Each month, IFT curates theme-based content and delivers it to you in this space in hopes that it propels your work to feed the planet and advance the science of food. Our August Content Spotlight is dedicated to the fascinating and complex field of sensory and consumer sciences.  

IFT provides the following resources to inform, inspire, and enable the science of food community to navigate challenges in sensory and consumer sciences faster and more efficiently. Explore how sensory cues affect consumer perception and behavior. Learn about tech startups harnessing the biology of smells to boost food development. Check out an engaging pair of podcasts brought to you in collaboration with IFT’s Sensory & Consumer Sciences Division, plus peer-reviewed journal articles, on-demand learning, and more.   

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Food Technology  

• Making Sense of Consumer Complexity 
• Generational Market Opportunities 
• Sensory Study Favors HPP for Smoothies 
• The Science Behind the Pucker 
• From Bean to Bar—Chocolate without Bitterness 
• Sniffing Out New Aroma Technologies 

Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety 

• Instrumental and Sensory Techniques to Characterize the Texture of Foods Suitable for Dysphagic People: A Systematic Review 
• Sensory Descriptors for Pulses and Pulse-Derived Ingredients: Toward a Standardized Lexicon and Sensory Wheel 

Journal of Food Science 

• Special Issue: Advances in Sensory Science: From Perceptions to Consumer Acceptance 
• Sensory Quality of Citrus Scion Hybrids with Poncirus trifoliata in Their Pedigrees 
• Consumer Perception of Restaurant and Ready-to-Eat Cheese Dips  

On-Demand Learning Resources 

• Best Practices in Sensory Evaluation for Quality Management 
• Sensory Analysis of Frozen Foods 

Sci Dish Podcast 

• Episode 20: Sensory Science Series, part 1   
• Episode 21: Sensory Science Series, part 2 

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