*2.7. Consumer Preference*

The cabanossi were evaluated for preference to taste and appearance by 131 untrained consumers following a methodology described by Mahachi et al. [36] Each consumer was given two samples to evaluate; one from each treatment in the company of a corresponding questionnaire to fill and rate their preference for each sample. The questionnaire asked for demographic information and provided an unstructured scoring scale from 1–9 on which they could rate their preference for the different cabanossi treatments. All consumer identifiers were scrubbed from the data before analyses. The demographic information of the sample population is shown in Table 2.
