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Consumer studies
 

Les Maisons du Goût are able to manage all sorts of quantitative hedonic studies and this in various consumer contexts and questionable areas in France and Europe. The problems that we are most often entrusted with concern:

- acceptability and preference measurements,
- segmentation studies,
- explanation of preferences,
- quali-quantitative studies of product concepts,
- product-packaging adequacy studies,
- lthe ranking of sensory criteria in the construction of acceptability and preferences...

 

 

Command of the different techniques and analytical tools

 

 

The ideal profile technique

with the possibility of obtaining leads

to optimise each pertinent

characteristic

 

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Mapping of preferences

with the possibility of studying consumer segmentations

within a large population

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PLS regression

to identify the respective weights of the organoleptic characteristics on acceptability

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Penalty analysis
which, from JAR scales, enables the identification of the relative impact on acceptability of the different criteria evaluated

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Lexical analysis of consumer views

which, apart from the calculation of the ratios presented here, enables the identification of the semantic retained by the consumers to refer to the qualities and defects noted in the products evaluated
Produit A Produit B
Qualités Défauts Ratio Qualités Défaults Ration
Aspect 71 35 +2,0 85 21 +4,0
Odeur 49 25 +2,0 58 16 +3,6
Texture 63 52 +1,2 82 23 +3,6
Goût 58 28 +2,1 73 28 +2,6
Total 233 140 +1,7 284 88 +3,2

 

 

Scoring in comparison with the ideal

enables the degree of adequacy of each sensory criterion to be evaluated with the consumers’ expectations.

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A panel not over-exposed

Over 5000 people

 

Children

Adults

Elderly

 


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Frequency solicitation of panel

 

 

Strict targeting


The targeting of the subjects is a crucial element in consumer studies.

At Les Maisons du Goût, the protocol and the subject targeting questionnaire are clearly defined with the study applicant. The traceability of the targeting can be controlled at any time.

 

 

 


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