SERVICES
Taste Panel aims to provide the food industry with technical services to aid decision making, improve products and give market insight through market research. Some of our services are listed below, please contact us for more information.
Texture Analysis
We can perform a range of mechanical tests for texture of food products using industry leading equipment, these include:
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Mirinz Bite Force
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Slice Shear Force
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Warner-Bratzler
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Trained Taste Panel
Our trained panellists assess your food product in a controlled environment ensuring minimal environmental bias from light, sound or packaging. This ensures our testing focuses solely on your product.
This is a quantitative research method and can be used to understand how well a product performs against competitor alternatives or to establish if new recipes match your expectations.
Consumer Panel
Our trained panellists assess your food product in a group environment where they can discuss their thoughts and opinions about your product. Results are recorded digitally for each panellist and as a group. This is a qualitative research method and can be used to gain a greater understanding of your products based on consumer preferences. For example, is your product too spicy? Are specific flavours not coming through?
Technical Analysis
Taste Panel offer a range of technical analysis beyond texture analysis and include:
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pH Testing
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Drip loss
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Cooking loss
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Colour score
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Intramuscular fat score
Board Room Tasting
Our board room tasting allows you to rate new products or developments with confidence that no bias has been passed from one person to another in the tasting session.
Your results are instant the moment the last sample is finished, allowing you to appraise them further in your meeting.
What We Can Test
We can test a wide variety of meat products from fresh cuts to processed meats.
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As well as soft drinks and alcohol.
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We can test just about any edible food or drink products out there, get in touch for more information.
If you can eat or drink it then we can test it!
We can be flexible to your needs, allowing us to run at taste panel wherever your target demographic is.
The software we use allows us to tailor the questions to each customer, gaining the best insights from the panellists.
Each package is tailored to the customer requirements, including their budget. We are very competitively priced compared to other service providers out there.
Each service has different benefits and advantages, we will guide you through the process to ensure your goals are met.
Our Taste Panel consists of trained panellists that are continuously assessed to ensure that their ability to detect minute differences between products is kept at a calibrated level.
Whereas a Consumer Panel is made up of untrained panellists from specific demographic groups, allowing you to gain insights from a particular area of the market.
Taste Panel will manage the project completely, unless you have specific panellists you would like to use.
We can tailor result presentation to each customer, whether it be raw data or a finished report.
A majority of taste panels can be held at our Yorkshire Wolds Cookery School. BUT locations across the UK are also achievable.