2.4. Sensory evaluation
Sensory evaluation was carried out on bread samples with the
different percentages of QL according to Lim et al., 2011. Subsequently,
the samples were sliced (slices about 1.5 cm thick), coded
with a number and served to untrained consumers. Attributes
recognized by the sensory panel as describing the sensory properties
of the bread products were: crumb colour, aroma, texture and
taste.
The panel consisted of 35 consumers (22e50 years old; 20
women and 15 men), who evaluated the bread's overall acceptability.
This hedonic test was used to determine the degree of
overall liking for the different types of bread based on degree of
liking or disliking according to a nine-point hedonic scale (1: dislike
extremely, 5: neither like nor dislike, 9: like extremely). Plain water
was used for mouth rinsing before and after each sample testing.