Regarding the similarity between DA and rapid methodologies, sample configurations from the CATA question were the most similar (Table 5). This can be explained by the fact that the CATA question is based on the evaluation of a specific product's sensory characteristics, similarly to DA. The high similarity between results from CATA questions and DA have been reported by other authors for the evaluation of different dairy products . Sample configurations from projective mapping were the least similar to those from DA (Table 5). Low RV coefficients between sample
configurations from projective mapping and descriptive mapping have been reported by other authors.reported that the RV coefficient between DA and projective mapping was 0.48 when evaluating liver patê. In this sense it should be highlighted that differences between results from projective mapping and DA do not mean lack of validity. Projective mapping encourages the generation of a synthetic representation of the products, which is usually inhibited when assessors are asked to focus their attention on multiple attributes (Prescott, 1999; Small & Prescott, 2005). For
this reason, sample configurations depend on the relative importance that assessors give to the sensory characteristics of the samples, providing different information than attribute-based methodologies.