Hort. Sci. (Prague), 2016, 43(2):51-58 | DOI: 10.17221/40/2015-HORTSCI

Sensory typology of apples used to evaluate scab-resistant cultivars as compared to known commercial applesOriginal Paper

P. Jankowski1, K. Tomala2, E. Szpadzik2, N. Baryłko-Pikielna3, G. Wasiak-Zys3
1 Department of Econometrics and Statistics, Faculty of Applied Informatics and Mathematics, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
2 Department of Pomology, Faculty of Horticulture, Biotechnology and Landscape Architecture, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
3 Department of Functional Food and Commodities, Faculty of Human Nutrition and Consumer Sciences, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

The aim of this work was to verify a comparative procedure for evaluating apple cultivars based on typology and comparing the sensory features of the examined cultivars during cold storage and simulated shelf-life. The procedure was applied experimentally to compare scab-resistant apples to known commercial cultivars. The procedure consisted of four sensory profiling analyses of internal apple characteristics: after two and four months of cold storage and after an additional ten days of shelf-life following each cold storage period. Eleven sensory attributes were evaluated at each timing, resulting in four general types of apple cultivars indicated and the cultivar storability over long cold storage time and shelf-life rated. The study was performed on 8 scab-resistant and 14 commercial apple cultivars evaluated over two consecutive years. The examined cultivars were then segmented into six groups of different sensory characteristics, which allowed for indicating those scab-resistant cultivars which might replace the conventional ones of equivalent sensory features.

Keywords: cold storage; shelf-life; profiling analysis; typology; consumer acceptability

Published: June 30, 2016  Show citation

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Jankowski P, Tomala K, Szpadzik E, Baryłko-Pikielna N, Wasiak-Zys G. Sensory typology of apples used to evaluate scab-resistant cultivars as compared to known commercial apples. Hort. Sci. (Prague). 2016;43(2):51-58. doi: 10.17221/40/2015-HORTSCI.
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