The size of the panel was appropriate for consumer hedonic tests
(Lawless and Heymann 1999; Hough and others 2006). The panel
was comprised of 38 females (47%) and 43 males (54%). The ages
of the panelists were equally distributed between the 3 age ranges
of 18 to 25 y old (32%), 26 to 40 y old (33%), 41 to 55 y old (27%),
and over 56 y old (8%). On average, typical tomato consumption
was reported as daily for 17%, once per wk for 39%, up to 3 times
per month for 30% and less than 1 time per month for 14% of the
panelists.