Sensory characteristics like appearance and colour, sensory
texture, odour, flavour and taste and overall acceptability for all
the samples were assessed using nine point hedonic scale with 9
for ‘liked extremely’ and 1 for ‘dislike extremely’ (Lawless &
Heymann, 1998). Sensory evaluation of the warm cooked rice
(about 40 C) was carried out by a group of 14 researchers from
Central Institute of Post Harvest Engineering and Technology,
Ludhiana. The group consisted of 6 male and 8 female researchers
and was in the age range of 28e35 years. The staple diet of most of
the panellists was rice. Before conducting the study, a detail discussion
about the organoleptic characteristics of the cooked fortified
rice was held with the panellists and the two evaluation
trials were carried out to select the homogeneous group of potential
panellists. Samples were coded with three digit randomly
generated numbers to avoid biasness. The sensory evaluation was
performed in four batches in the forenoon of the day and each
batch was evaluated at a gap of 1 h started from 10 AM morning to
12 O0 clock noon. Water was provided for mouth rinsing after
tasting the product to avoid the carryover effect of the aftertaste.
Panellist did not take any other thing in between during the
sensory evaluation except water.