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Some sweeteners are tastier than others?! Examining the impact of knowing the type of sweetener on consumers' evaluation of lemonade 有些甜味剂比其他甜味剂更美味？！研究了解甜味剂类型对消费者对柠檬水评价的影响

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Food Quality and Preference Pub Date : 2025-06-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2025.105612

Marília Prada , David Guedes , Alesia Doros , Magda Saraiva

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Consumer preferences for upcycled foods: The role of product attributes and label information 消费者对再生食品的偏好：产品属性和标签信息的作用

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Food Quality and Preference Pub Date : 2025-06-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2025.105611

Quoc Cuong Nguyen , Tormod Næs , Van Viet Man Le , Daniele Asioli , Paula Varela

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Ultra-processed foods are of poor nutritional quality in French consumers' representations; a categorization study of images of food products without information 法国消费者认为超加工食品营养质量差；无信息食品图像的分类研究

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Food Quality and Preference Pub Date : 2025-06-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2025.105609

Jessy Youssef , Stéphanie Chambaron , Laurence Dujourdy , Gaëlle Arvisenet

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Low-income consumers' perceptions of plant-based meat alternatives: A Central Location Test 低收入消费者对植物性肉类替代品的看法：一项中心位置测试

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Food Quality and Preference Pub Date : 2025-06-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2025.105601

Silvia Sapio , Qian Janice Wang , Riccardo Vecchio

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The impact of climate claims on meat alternative adoption: The underlying mechanism of taste inferences and anticipated guilt 气候声明对肉类替代品采用的影响：味觉推断和预期内疚的潜在机制

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Food Quality and Preference Pub Date : 2025-05-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2025.105585

Marion Garaus , Elisabeth Wolfsteiner , Christian Garaus

{"title":"The impact of climate claims on meat alternative adoption: The underlying mechanism of taste inferences and anticipated guilt","authors":"Marion Garaus , Elisabeth Wolfsteiner , Christian Garaus","doi":"10.1016/j.foodqual.2025.105585","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foodqual.2025.105585","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The increasing adoption of meat alternatives can significantly contribute to animal welfare, human health, and environmental sustainability by reducing greenhouse-gas emissions from livestock production. While meat alternatives currently represent only a small fraction of the market compared to traditional meat, their growth is accelerating rapidly. Highlighting whether the product is environmentally friendly on packaging may serve as an effective strategy to accelerate its adoption. This research examines the impact of climate claims as a key influence, exploring how they shape taste inferences and anticipated guilt, ultimately driving consumers' willingness to adopt meat alternatives. An experiment employing a one-factor between-subjects design tests the theoretical model with a representative sample of Austrian consumers. Data from this sample (<em>N</em> = 427) were analyzed with MANCOVA and mediation analysis. The data confirm the theoretical reasoning that climate claims stimulate taste inferences and, at the same time, reduce feelings of anticipated guilt. Both variables impact the adoption of meat-alternative products. However, the indirect effect of taste inferences was more substantial than the indirect effect of anticipated guilt. This study is the first to show that taste inferences and anticipated guilt are underlying processes that explain how climate claims for meat alternatives impact their adoption by consumers. The findings contribute to the ongoing debate on the effectiveness of claims and provide theoretically derived explanations of why a climate claim impacts consumer responses positively in the context of a plant-based diet.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":322,"journal":{"name":"Food Quality and Preference","volume":"133 ","pages":"Article 105585"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144241350","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The role of chewing efficiency in aroma release and perception during oral processing of solid model foods 在固体模型食物的口腔加工过程中，咀嚼效率在香气释放和感知中的作用

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Food Quality and Preference Pub Date : 2025-05-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2025.105598

Pupin Liu , Zhejun Xu , Mingyu Su , Jianshe Chen , Xinmiao Wang

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Generative AI framework for sensory and consumer research 感官和消费者研究的生成式人工智能框架

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Food Quality and Preference Pub Date : 2025-05-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2025.105600

Kosuke Motoki , Julia Low , Carlos Velasco

{"title":"Generative AI framework for sensory and consumer research","authors":"Kosuke Motoki , Julia Low , Carlos Velasco","doi":"10.1016/j.foodqual.2025.105600","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foodqual.2025.105600","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) technologies, including ChatGPT, offer innovative capabilities in sensory and consumer science. Recent empirical studies in sensory and consumer science highlight the potential utility of GenAI in, for example, AI-generated food images and recipes. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first paper to propose a comprehensive framework for integrating GenAI into research and development in sensory and consumer science. The framework highlights how GenAI can be applied across the concept, design, and testing phases through an iterative process. The concept phase utilises GenAI to generate research concepts (e.g., proposing ideas such as research questions and hypotheses). The design phase employs GenAI to formulate research designs. During this stage, GenAI assists with creating and validating survey/experimental stimuli and measurement scales. The testing phase applies GenAI to evaluate research ideas and designs by employing “silicon samples,” interactive surveys that enhance engagement and response quality. In the testing phase, GenAI can also analyse unstructured text data, offering more accurate and scalable text analysis than traditional methods, even across diverse languages and cultures. This study also acknowledges potential pitfalls, such as biases in AI outputs, data privacy and security concerns, oversimplification, lack of transparency, and GenAI user misperception. This article encourages greater integration of GenAI by highlighting its potential for the sensory and consumer science community, while addressing its limitations and ensuring adherence to high ethical standards.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":322,"journal":{"name":"Food Quality and Preference","volume":"133 ","pages":"Article 105600"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144223544","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Automating chemosensory creativity assessment with large language models 使用大型语言模型自动化化学感觉创造力评估

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Food Quality and Preference Pub Date : 2025-05-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2025.105599

Qian Janice Wang , Robert Pellegrino

{"title":"Automating chemosensory creativity assessment with large language models","authors":"Qian Janice Wang , Robert Pellegrino","doi":"10.1016/j.foodqual.2025.105599","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foodqual.2025.105599","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Chemosensory creativity, the ability to innovate using taste and smell, is a crucial yet understudied aspect of human ingenuity. This study explores the potential of large language models (LLMs), specifically GPT-4, to assess creativity in the context of flavour pairings. Leveraging a novel chemosensory creativity test inspired by the Alternative Uses Task, 200 UK-based participants generated flavour pairings across four food categories. Subsequently, these pairings were rated for creativity, deliciousness, and surprise by human participants and two GPT-4 configurations: a deterministic (low-randomness) model termed “Strict GPT” and a stochastic (high-randomness) model termed “Flexible GPT.”</div><div>Findings reveal a strong correlation between human and Flexible GPT ratings of creativity (<em>r</em> = 0.89), surpassing that of Strict GPT (<em>r</em> = 0.71). Both humans and GPT models relied heavily on novelty (operationalised as surprise) rather than functionality (operationalised by deliciousness) as a determinant of creativity. However, GPT ratings exhibited a stronger emphasis on novelty and higher variability. While GPT-4 demonstrated strong potential for approximating human assessments in the UK context, differences emerged, particularly for rare flavour pairings where human ratings and model predictions had less alignment. These findings demonstrate the feasibility of using LLMs to automate creativity assessments in food-related domains by approximating human evaluations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":322,"journal":{"name":"Food Quality and Preference","volume":"132 ","pages":"Article 105599"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144178303","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Norwegian consumption of plant-based meat analogues 挪威对植物性肉类类似物的消费

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Food Quality and Preference Pub Date : 2025-05-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2025.105597

Sarah Wangui Muiruri , Anna Birgitte Milford , Kyrre Rickertsen

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Understanding the relationship between carbonation-related characteristics and sensory perception of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beers 了解碳酸相关特征与酒精和非酒精啤酒感官知觉之间的关系

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Food Quality and Preference Pub Date : 2025-05-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2025.105596

Liezl Bossaerts , Niels A. Langenaeken , Veerle Daems , Arno G.B. Wouters , Christophe M. Courtin

{"title":"Understanding the relationship between carbonation-related characteristics and sensory perception of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beers","authors":"Liezl Bossaerts , Niels A. Langenaeken , Veerle Daems , Arno G.B. Wouters , Christophe M. Courtin","doi":"10.1016/j.foodqual.2025.105596","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foodqual.2025.105596","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The mouthfeel of non-alcoholic beers is often considered inferior to that of their alcoholic counterparts. Mouthfeel is influenced, inter alia, by carbonation-related properties such as the bubble size, sting and the amount of bubbles. This study investigated differences in the carbonation-related properties of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beers and whether such differences are sensorially perceivable. Four non-alcoholic commercial beers and their alcoholic counterparts were analysed for their CO<sub>2</sub> content on the one hand and the size and amount of bubbles formed on a nucleation line in a beer glass on the other hand. A sensory evaluation involving 20 assessors was conducted to link these carbonation-related properties to perceived mouthfeel attributes. Results show that significantly fewer bubbles formed in a glass filled with non-alcoholic than with alcoholic beer. Sensory evaluation indicated that this parameter served as a good predictor of how consumers perceived the amount of bubbles in their mouths. The bubble sizes of non-alcoholic and alcoholic beers were rather similar and no difference in bubble size between alcoholic and non-alcoholic beers could be perceived sensorially. Furthermore, no differences were observed in CO<sub>2</sub> content between the alcoholic and non-alcoholic beers and a similar sting was perceived. These findings suggest that increasing bubble formation in non-alcoholic beers could help bridge the quality gap between alcoholic and non-alcoholic beers regarding mouthfeel.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":322,"journal":{"name":"Food Quality and Preference","volume":"132 ","pages":"Article 105596"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144167998","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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