Several studies have reported that trained assessors have a greater ability to verbalize their sensory perception and that their descriptions are usually more reliable than those provided by consumers . In the present work consumers provided sensory terms that were similar to those used by trained assessors in DA. However, it should be noted that consumers did not use some of the attributes used by the trained assessors in DA, suggesting that the latter might have evaluated sensory characteristics that are not relevant for consumers. This result stresses the need to rely on consumer's sensory perception during new product development. Also, consumers described samples using sensory and hedonic terms, in agreement with other studies (Ares, Varela, Rado, & Gimenez, 2011; Veinand et al.,2011). Although the use of hedonic terms can be regarded as a limitation of consumer-based sensory characterizations, it should be taken into account that hedonic information can be used to identify relevant sensory characteristics for consumers for the design of marketing and
communication strategies. Finally, it is worth mentioning that PSP has the advantage of enabling the comparison of sample configurations from different sessions, which cannot easily be achieved using the other two rapid methodologies. This advantage is interesting considering the iterative nature of new product development.