2.5. Sensory evaluation
Sensory analyses to compare the internal package odour of
treated and control arils were carried out by 10 trained adults, aged
25–50 years (5 female and 5 male). The panel was trained in a pretest
for evaluating the aroma of pomegranate arils. A laboratory of
sensory analyses with an individual booth for each panellist was
used. For each treatment and sampling date, the ten boxes were
opened and each judge evaluated immediately the box head space
odour on a ranked scale of 5 to 1, where 5 = fresh fruit, 4 = ripe,
3 = over-ripe, 2 = slightly fermented, and 1 = off-odour.