Let's Learn Food Science - Check All That Apply or CATA sensory

At the end of this video you will be able to:
-Identify when CATA analysis is appropriate for your sensory analysis
-Define how CATA can help in the food product development process
-Describe what is required for a CATA sensory set-up, including the set up, labelling and script
-Determine an appropriate data collection method
-Interpret CATA findings using frequency tables and pareto analysis
-Discuss the use of Excel and VBA macros to facilitate qualitative analysis in Excel

[@gwenmazike1612]

Hello. Do you have a video on how to enter the data into excell soon after tasting before those purple graphs come out

[@amyproulx78]

I created a survey tool in Google Forms that automatically generated the graphs. Doing word frequency counts in Excel is an advanced topic I do with my students.

[@christopherpascual9562]

hi, first of all thank you for this video 😊 May I ask for your help regarding CATA method. For example, I want to know the Sensory Profile Characterization of four coffee types here in our province using CATA Method. Based on my understanding on this video is that I need to label a number code per coffee type before i give it to the consumers for CATA? meaning i should not label the type of coffee itself? 😊 is that correct? thanks in advance 😊

[@amyproulx78]

Hi there, great question. So you would give each of your four coffee samples a random number to code it, so people know which sample they are analysing, while not introducing bias by calling the product by its proper name or brand. Then it is up to you to decide which attributes are important in your CATA analysis. There is a World Coffee Research Sensory Lexicon that can help you decide which terms are meaningful for your analysts. If your analysts are well trained, they can deal with more descriptors, while if they are from the general public and untrained, they usually can't deal with more than 10-12 descriptors without getting confused.

[@amyproulx78]

Here's the weblink to the World Coffee Research Sensory Lexicon worldcoffeeresearch.org/resources/sensory-lexicon

[@christopherpascual9562]

Thank you so much ma’am. Your response are truly highly appreciated ❤️ actually i was about to search you in facebook or instagram because i want to have a constant guidance regarding on my study 🤗 thank you maam thank you ❤️

[@christopherpascual9562]

Thank you for this! 🥹❤️