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Influence of Demographic Factors on Sheepmeat Sensory Scores of American, Australian and Chinese Consumers

Along with animal production factors, it is important to understand whether demographic factors influence untrained consumer perceptions of eating quality. This study examined the impact of demographic factors and sheepmeat consumption preferences on eating quality scores of American, Australian and...

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Autores principales: O’Reilly, Rachel A., Pannier, Liselotte, Gardner, Graham E., Garmyn, Andrea J., Luo, Hailing, Meng, Qingxiang, Miller, Markus F., Pethick, David W.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7230945/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32331353
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/foods9040529
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author O’Reilly, Rachel A.
Pannier, Liselotte
Gardner, Graham E.
Garmyn, Andrea J.
Luo, Hailing
Meng, Qingxiang
Miller, Markus F.
Pethick, David W.
author_facet O’Reilly, Rachel A.
Pannier, Liselotte
Gardner, Graham E.
Garmyn, Andrea J.
Luo, Hailing
Meng, Qingxiang
Miller, Markus F.
Pethick, David W.
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description Along with animal production factors, it is important to understand whether demographic factors influence untrained consumer perceptions of eating quality. This study examined the impact of demographic factors and sheepmeat consumption preferences on eating quality scores of American, Australian and Chinese untrained consumers. M. longissimus lumborum (LL) and m. semimembranosus (SM) were grilled according to sheep Meat Standards Australia protocols and evaluated by 2160 consumers for tenderness, juiciness, flavour and overall liking. Linear mixed effects models were used to analyse the impact of demographic factors and sheepmeat consumption habits on eating quality scores. Consumer age, gender, number of adults in a household and income had the strongest effect on sensory scores (P ≤ 0.05), although, the impact was often different across countries. Frequency of lamb consumption had an impact on sensory scores of American, Australian and Chinese consumers but larger sample sizes in some underrepresented subclasses for Australian and Chinese consumers are needed. Results suggest it is important to balance sensory panels for demographic factors of age, gender, number of adults and income to ensure sensory preferences are accurately represented for these particular populations.
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spelling pubmed-72309452020-05-22 Influence of Demographic Factors on Sheepmeat Sensory Scores of American, Australian and Chinese Consumers O’Reilly, Rachel A. Pannier, Liselotte Gardner, Graham E. Garmyn, Andrea J. Luo, Hailing Meng, Qingxiang Miller, Markus F. Pethick, David W. Foods Article Along with animal production factors, it is important to understand whether demographic factors influence untrained consumer perceptions of eating quality. This study examined the impact of demographic factors and sheepmeat consumption preferences on eating quality scores of American, Australian and Chinese untrained consumers. M. longissimus lumborum (LL) and m. semimembranosus (SM) were grilled according to sheep Meat Standards Australia protocols and evaluated by 2160 consumers for tenderness, juiciness, flavour and overall liking. Linear mixed effects models were used to analyse the impact of demographic factors and sheepmeat consumption habits on eating quality scores. Consumer age, gender, number of adults in a household and income had the strongest effect on sensory scores (P ≤ 0.05), although, the impact was often different across countries. Frequency of lamb consumption had an impact on sensory scores of American, Australian and Chinese consumers but larger sample sizes in some underrepresented subclasses for Australian and Chinese consumers are needed. Results suggest it is important to balance sensory panels for demographic factors of age, gender, number of adults and income to ensure sensory preferences are accurately represented for these particular populations. MDPI 2020-04-22 /pmc/articles/PMC7230945/ /pubmed/32331353 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/foods9040529 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Influence of Demographic Factors on Sheepmeat Sensory Scores of American, Australian and Chinese Consumers
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7230945/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/foods9040529
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