Exploring New and Modified Rejection-Type Thresholds Using Cricket Snack Crackers
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Samples
2.2. Consumer Test
2.3. Modified Consumer Rejection Threshold
2.4. Hedonic Rejection Threshold and Modified Hedonic Rejection Threshold
2.5. Rejection Tolerance Threshold
2.6. Rejection Range
3. Results and Discussion
3.1. Modified Consumer Rejection Thrshold
3.2. Hedonic Rejection Threshold and Modified Hedonic Rejection Threshold
3.3. Rejection Tolerenace Threshold and Rejection Range
4. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Threshold Concept | Abbreviation | Reference |
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Consumer rejection threshold | CRT | Prescott et al. (2005) [3] |
Modified consumer rejection threshold | M-CRT | This study |
Compromised acceptance threshold | CAT | Filjo et al. (2015) [4] |
Hedonic rejection threshold | HRT | Filjo et al. (2015; 2018) [4,5] |
Modified hedonic rejection threshold | M-HRT | This study |
Hedonic thresholds methodology | HTM | Filjo et al. (2017) [20] |
Hedonic thresholds methodology varying two stimuli | HTM2s | Filjo et al. (2020) [6] |
Favored acceptance threshold | FAT | Filjo et al. (2020) [6] |
Rejection tolerance threshold | RTT | This study |
Rejection tolerance range | RR | This study |
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Ardoin, R.; Romero, R.; Marx, B.; Prinyawiwatkul, W. Exploring New and Modified Rejection-Type Thresholds Using Cricket Snack Crackers. Foods 2020, 9, 1352. https://doi.org/10.3390/foods9101352
Ardoin R, Romero R, Marx B, Prinyawiwatkul W. Exploring New and Modified Rejection-Type Thresholds Using Cricket Snack Crackers. Foods. 2020; 9(10):1352. https://doi.org/10.3390/foods9101352
Chicago/Turabian StyleArdoin, Ryan, Ross Romero, Brian Marx, and Witoon Prinyawiwatkul. 2020. "Exploring New and Modified Rejection-Type Thresholds Using Cricket Snack Crackers" Foods 9, no. 10: 1352. https://doi.org/10.3390/foods9101352