Research areas
- Life & Medical Sciences
Website
Available for external users?
Yes
Description
Facilities designed to support the development, reformulation and validation of food products, focusing on sensory quality and consumer experience.
Equipped to conduct descriptive, affective, and preference studies with trained panels and consumers. This allows attributes such as taste, texture, aroma, or appearance to be measured, and the acceptance of or differentiation between products to be assessed under controlled conditions.
Features
- Sensory analysis laboratory designed in accordance with the ISO 8589:2007 standard
- 9 individual tasting booths
- Industrial kitchens equipped with traditional and advanced cooking technologies
- An extensive database of consumer panels: over 400 online and over 500 tasting panels across Europe
- Varied consumer profiles: children, teenagers, adults, senior citizens, housewives, consumers with specific nutritional requirements, the hospitality industry, etc.
- Panels of trained tasters for a wide variety of foods
- Staff (technicians and analysts) permanently attached to the sensory laboratory
- Expertise in neuromarketing techniques
Services
- Descriptive and affective sensory analysis of food products
- Consumer acceptance and preference testing
- Product differentiation studies
- Sensory validation of new product developments
- Support for food R&D&I
Location
AZTI
Bizkaia Technology Park (Astondo Bidea, Edificio 609, 48160 Derio, Vizcaya)
Other info
Food safety and quality
Application sectors
- Agri-food
