Sensory testing.
Sensory properties are a very important factor for acceptance or rejection of a food product. As shown in Figure 4, the application of coatings did not affect (P > 0.05)initial sensory parameters in strawberries and had no effect (P > 0.05) on panelist evaluations. In initial evaluations of parameters such as color, flavor, texture, and acceptance, all treatments received scores of very good to excellent(4to5).Sensory evaluations of coated and uncoated strawberries remained stable during the 1st 6 d. However, by day 9, significant differences (P < 0.05)