Consumer Characterization of Commercial Gluten-Free Crackers Through Rapid Methods and Its Comparison to Descriptive Panel Data

Despite the continued growth of the gluten-free food market, there is a dearth of sensory and consumer knowledge on commercial products. The existing research is mostly limited to hedonic measurements and ingredient effects instead of analytical methods for a better understanding of product characteristics of gluten-free crackers specifically. In this work, a semi-trained consumer panel used projective mapping to choose objectively different plain/original crackers from a pool of sixteen...