Rocha Célia, Pinto Moura Ana, Pereira Diana, Costa Lima Rui, Cunha Luís Miguel
GreenUPorto, DGAOT, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, Campus de Vairão, Rua da Agrária, 747, 4485-646 Vila do Conde, Portugal.
SenseTest, Lda., Rua Zeferino Costa, 341, 4400-345 Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal.
Foods. 2021 Mar 23;10(3):684. doi: 10.3390/foods10030684.
This work aimed to adapt the EsSense Profile emotions list to the discrimination of herbal infusions, aiming to evaluate the effect of harvesting conditions on the emotional profile. A panel of 100 consumers evaluated eight organic infusions: lemon verbena, peppermint, lemon thyme, lemongrass, chamomile, lemon balm, globe amaranth and tutsan, using a check-all-that-apply (CATA) ballot with the original EsSense Profile. A set of criteria was applied to get a discriminant list. First, the terms with low discriminant power and with a frequency mention below 35% were removed. Two focus groups were also performed to evaluate the applicability of the questionnaire. The content analysis of focus groups suggests the removal of the terms and , recognized as sensory attributes. Six additional terms were removed, considered to be too similar to other existing emotion terms. Changes in the questionnaire, resulting in a list of 24 emotion terms for the evaluation of selected herbal infusions, were able to discriminate beyond overall liking. When comparing finer differences between plants harvested under different conditions, differences were identified for lemon verbena infusions, yielding the mechanical cut of plant tips as the one leading to a more appealing evoked emotions profile.
这项工作旨在使EsSense Profile情感列表适用于草本浸液的辨别，以评估采收条件对情感特征的影响。一个由100名消费者组成的小组使用带有原始EsSense Profile的多选（CATA）选票，对八种有机浸液进行了评估：柠檬马鞭草、薄荷、柠檬百里香、柠檬草、洋甘菊、蜜蜂花、千日红和土三七。应用一组标准来获得一个判别列表。首先，去除判别力低且提及频率低于35%的术语。还进行了两个焦点小组来评估问卷的适用性。焦点小组的内容分析表明应去除被认为是感官属性的术语 和 。另外六个术语也被去除，因为它们被认为与其他现有的情感术语过于相似。问卷的变化产生了一份用于评估所选草本浸液的24个情感术语列表，该列表能够超越总体喜好进行辨别。在比较不同条件下采收的植物之间更细微的差异时，发现柠檬马鞭草浸液存在差异，结果表明机械切割植物顶端会产生更具吸引力的诱发情感特征。
