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Scientia Agropecuaria

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Scientia Agropecuaria vol.10 no.1 Trujillo Jan./Mar. 2019

http://dx.doi.org/10.17268/sci.agropecu.2019.01.03 

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Obtaining the ideal smoked bacon: What is the influence of the product space and multivariate procedure to construct the external preference mapping?

 

Erick Saldaña 1 ORCID iD https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4018-2852; Mariana Marinho Martins 1; Beatriz Schmidt Menegali 1 ORCID iD https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1153-4564; Miriam Mabel Selani 2 ORCID iD https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8184-742X; Carmen J. Contreras-Castillo 1,* ORCID iD https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0554-4694

1 Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Escola Superior de Agricultura "Luiz de Queiroz" (ESALQ), Departamento de Agroindústria, Alimentos e Nutrição (LAN), Piracicaba, SP 13418-900, Brazil.

2 Universidade Federal de São Carlos - Campus Lagoa do Sino, Centro de Ciências da Natureza, Buri, SP, Brazil.


Abstract

Identifying the ideal product is the most important step in new product development and improvement of existing ones. The aim of this study was to identify the ideal smoked bacon using PrefMFA and PrefMap considering three different sensory spaces obtained via descriptive analysis (DA), projectivemapping (PM) and CATA questions. Six smoked bacons were characterized by ten trained assessors using DA, and by two consumers panel using PM (n=93) and CATA questions (n=100). Also, one hundred consumers indicated their overall liking using a nine-point hedonic scale. The results showed that both techniques identified an ideal product. However, the sensory method has a greater effect than the multivariate procedure to obtain the sensory spaces prior to the preference mapping. Subsequent studies with other food matrices are still necessary in order to generalize our results.

Keywords: PrefMFA; Sensory profile; Overall liking; Ideal bacon.


1. Introduction

The manufacture and consumption of meat products in the Brazilian market has been increasing in recent years. Bacon is one of the most consumed meat products due to its pleasant sensory characteristics, developed during the curing and smoking processes (Saldaña et al., 2018). The sensory properties of bacon are mainly driven by smoking process that provides the smoke flavor, which is highly appreciated by consumers (Kathrine et al., 2013). For this reason, the sensory profile is considered the best intrinsic predictor of consumers’ liking (Saldaña et al., 2018). Listening to "the voice of the consumer" is a decisive step in the development or improvement of a product (van Kleef et al., 2005). Therefore, characterizing the product through sensory (sensory attributes) and hedonic (overall liking) perspectives is necessary, because together these data will identify the "drivers of liking" (Cariou et al., 2014) and finally the ideal product (Ares et al., 2011). Classically, the ideal product is obtained using the external preference mapping (PrefMap). The aim of PrefMap is to determine which sensory attributes explain the differences in overall liking (Lê y Worch, 2014) and is constructed in two steps (van Kleef et al., 2006): (a) determining the sensory space of the product via multivariate procedure, and (b) regressing the hedonic rating in this space (Cariou et al., 2014) using polynomial models. External preference mapping was used in a wide variety of products ranging from dulce de leche (Ares et al. ,2006) to plain yogurts (Masson et al.; 2016). In the meat science field, the PrefMap was applied to obtain the sensory attributes that drive the consumers liking of dry-cured ham (Resano et al., 2010). On the other hand, Arditti (1997) applied preference mapping to investigate chicken nuggets using a sensometric is the influence of the product space and multivariate procedure to construct the external preference mapping? perspective. This study included the selection of dimensions and models involved in the polynomial regression. Oltra et al. (2015) used the preference mapping to identify the quality attributes that drive consumers’ preferences for grilled lamb Longissimus lumborum. Despite all the advantages presented by the PrefMap, this technique has some limitations:

a) The first two dimensions of the product space are not always relevant to predict the overall liking of the consumers. However, the use of more dimensions will increase the number of parameters of the model, compromising the number of samples evaluated in a study;

b) The product space considered in the regression to model the liking is provided by trained assessors, and this space is not always relevant for consumer responses (Cariou et al., 2014; Worch, 2013). This fact can lead to irrelevant models for some consumers and therefore to a low predictive power.

In the current study, the last limitation will be addressed. Fitting liking in sensory space is risky, since the sensory space will not represent the ideal product in hedonic terms. To overcome these limitations, Worch (2013) presented a solution taking the best of the internal and external preference mapping techniques: the PrefMFA was born. This new technique of preference mapping uses the Multiple Factor Analysis (MFA) to give the same importance to the sensory and hedonic data in the construction of the perceptual space of the PrefMFA. Nevertheless, few applications of this technique have been reported in the development of foods.

As previously mentioned, the PrefMap is the influence of the product sensory space on the description of the ideal product. For this reason, the following question arises: Is the product sensory space provided by a trained panel the same as that given by the consumers? The answer is no. Consistent with this disadvantage and considering the development of new sensory methods performed by consumers (Ares y Varela, 2017; Valentin et al., 2012), it seems appropriate to use sensory spaces provided directly by consumers. The construction of external preference maps based on consumer sensory space is not a new idea, since Parente et al. (2011) successfully developed external preference maps based on the first two dimensions of the Multiple Factor Analysis performed on the CATA questions data. However, to date, there are no scientific reports that have examined the influence of the sensory space of the product obtained by different consumers sensory methods in the identification and description of the ideal product.

In this context, this study aimed to evaluate the influence of the product space provided by DA, PM, and CATA questions to identify and describe the ideal smoked bacon through the application of PrefMFA and PrefMap.

2.Materials and methods

2.1. Samples

Six smoked bacon samples were considered in the present study: two were smoked using liquid smoke (LS1 and LS2), three were conventionally smoked using Brazilian woods from reforestation (Bamboo, Eucalyptus and Acacia), and the last one corresponded to a commercial smoked bacon (CS) (Saldaña et al., 2018). Samples manufactured at the University processing plant (LS1, LS2, Bamboo, Eucalyptus and Acacia) were prepared in three independent processing and stored at -18 °C until one day before the sensory evaluation, when they were thawed at 4 °C. To guarantee the chemical characteristics required by the Brazilian legislation, moisture and lipid content of the bacon samples was determined according to the AOAC guidelines (AOAC, 1995). Water activity (Aw) was measured at 25 °C using a water activity meter (AquaLab 4TE, Decagon Devices, Inc., USA). The pH was measured using a pH-meter with a puncture electrode inserted into the sample (Saldaña et al., 2015). All measurements were performed in triplicate. Before carrying out the sensory tests, microbiological analyses of the bacon samples were performed to safeguard the integrity of the participants.

2.2. Sensory space of the products

The study was carried out by the Sensory Analysis and Consumer Study Group (SACSGroup), which belongs to the Laboratório de Qualidade e Processamento de Carnes of the Departamento de Agroindústria, Alimentos e Nutrição (LAN) of the Escola Superior de Agricultura "Luiz de Queiroz" - Universidade de São Paulo (ESALQ–USP). The Human Research Ethics Committee of the ESALQ-USP (protocol No. 1.550.783) approved this study. All participants read and signed an informed consent form. Samples coded with three- digit random numbers were served to the consumers following a Williams Latin Square design to avoid order presentation bias. Water was used for rinsing between samples. The sensory methods were performed according to Figure 1. The sensory space provided by the DA and PM was used as a baseline to select the words used in the CATA questions.

2.2.1. Descriptive Analysis

The sensory space of the bacon samples was determined through the DA (Lawless y Heymann, 2010), using ten trained assessors, considering eight sensory attributes (shine, fat content, redness, yellowness, saltiness, fattiness, smokiness and succulence), tasted during three different sessions. Further details of the DA are available in the study of Saldaña et al. (2018).

2.2.2. Projective Mapping

The consensus configuration of the samples of the PM method was used as the sensory space of the samples. Ninety-three consumers (55% women and 45% men, aged between 18-62 years) received 6 samples of smoked bacon and evaluated the similarities and differences between them according to their own criteria (Saldaña et al., 2018). Consumers placed the samples on a A3 sheet so that if two samples are similar, they should be close to each other and if they are different, they should be distant to each other (Valentin et al., 2012). When this step was completed, consumers were asked to write a few words close to the product to describe their sensory characteristics, as shown in Figure 1.

2.2.3. CATA questions and overall liking

One hundred habitual bacon consumers (40 men and 60 women, aged between 18 - 57 years) tasted monadically 6 bacon samples and answered the CATA questions checking all the terms that they considered appropriate to describe each bacon (Saldaña et al., 2019). The CATA questions were composed of 32 terms related to the sensory profile (Descriptive Analysis) and consumer perception (Projective Mapping) of the bacon samples. To avoid biases due to the long list of terms, the words were presented by category (appearance, odor, texture, and taste). Subsequently, consumers were asked to evaluate their overall liking (OL) using a structured nine-point hedonic scale, ranging from dislike extremely (1) to like extremely (9).

2.3. Data analysis

All data analyses were performed in the R environment using FactoMineR (Lê et al., 2008) (MFA, CA, and, and RV coefficient), SensoMineR (Lê y Husson, 2008) (PrefMap and PrefMFA) and CVAS (Canonical Variate Analysis) (Peltier, 2015).

2.3.1. Chemical analysis and overall liking

An analysis of variance (ANOVA) followed by the Tukey’s HSD test (p < 0.05) on the chemical and liking data were performed. For the chemical data, the one-way ANOVA was considered. For the liking data, the ANOVA model involved sample, consumer, and sample’s presentation order as sources of variation. The normality of the residues and homogeneity of the variances were checked before performing the ANOVA test.

2.3.2. Sensory space of the products

The DA data were analyzed by CVA based on the Multivariate Analysis of Variance to obtain the sensory space of the products following the guidelines of Peltier et al. (2015). MFA was used to provide the sensory space of the product based on the responses of ninety-three consumers who performed the PM. CATA questions data were analyzed by nonparametric Cochran’s Q test on the contingency table to identify the significantly different attributes between bacon samples. Afterwards, correspondence analysis (CA) was performed on the contingency table of the significant terms (Vidal et al., 2015).

2.3.3. Construction of the preference maps

The prefMap was carried out according to Macfie (2007) using the coordinates of the sensory space provided by the DA, MP and CATA questions. The prefMFA was analyzed following the recommendations of Worch (2013). The coordinates of the first two dimensions of the prefMFA were based on the MFA, considering sensory (DA, MP and CATA questions) and hedonic (OL) groups as active variables. For both PrefMap and PrefMFA, the OL of each consumer was individually regressed using the first two dimensions (Dim1 and Dim2) using the circular ideal point model (equation 1) (Danzart et al., 2004), since it has only 4 parameters (a, b, c, and d). A complete quadratic model is not suitable due to the high number of parameters and the low number of samples.

Where α is the intercept, b and c are the regression coefficients for the first two dimensions, and d is the quadratic parameter. This model was used because the consumers’ preferences are not linear (Schlich, 1995), involving four types of consumers: those who express like and dislike, the eclectics, and the non- discriminators (Danzart et al., 2004). Once the regression model was defined, the overall liking of each consumer was modeled using the first two dimensions of the CVA, MFA, and CA, corresponding for DA, PM and CATA questions, respectively. Subsequently, the OL areas were discretized in 1 if the estimated liking score was greater than the mean liking provided by the target consumer, and in 0 if the estimated liking was lower than the mean liking (Danzart et al., 2004). Finally, a density plot was created by overlaying all individual consumers areas. In the plot, areas with maximum density of preference were identified, corresponding to the coordinates of the ideal bacon.

2.3.4. Comparison of the ideal smoked bacon positioning

The RV coefficient was used to compare the configuration of the ideal smoked bacon obtained by three sensory product spaces (DA, PM and CATA questions) and two multivariate procedures (prefMap and prefMFA). The RV coefficient indicates the proximity between two configurations resulting from the multivariate analysis (Robert y Escoufier, 1976) and assumes values between 0 (total disagreement) and 1 (total agreement) (El Ghaziri y Qannari, 2015). In addition, each ideal product was characterized by the sensory attributes from each independent method.

3. Results and discussion

3.1. Chemical characteristics of bacon

All bacon samples manufactured in the processing plant of the University were similar in the chemical characteristics evaluated (Table 1), indicating that pork bellies were homogeneous, and the manufacturing process was similar for all samples. Therefore, it is assumed that changes in the sensory profile are due to the wood or liquid smoke used in the smoking process.

All the chemical characteristics showed values similar to those reported in the literature. The moisture content and pH values of the samples were similar to those reported by Huang et al. (2014) and the lipid content of the samples were within the range indicated by Soladoye et al. (2017) (30.71% – 68.74%).

3.2. Sensory analysis of bacon

Before analyzing the preference maps, it is convenient to present the results of the overall liking, since the products with greater acceptance are expected to be close to the ideal product (if there is an ideal product).

Figure 2 indicates that the commercial and LS2 samples had the highest OL, while LS1 was the least liked. The remaining samples showed an intermediate liking.

3.2.1. Descriptive analysis

Figure 3 shows the preference mapping according to the PrefMap and PrefMFA for the DA. Subtle differences were observed in the positioning of the samples in the sensory spaces, although they were obtained by different multivariate methods. In the PrefMap, LS2, Bamboo, Commercial and Acacia samples were positioned in the region of greater acceptance (60-70% of consumers liked these products), while LS1 (20-30% of consumers liked these products) and Eucalyptus (30-40% of consumers liked these products) samples were positioned in the region of lower acceptance. In the PrefMFA, the samples placed in the areas of greater acceptance were commercial, bamboo and S2, and those placed in the less accepted region were Eucalyptus, Acacia and S1. Both methods showed optimal regions, where the preference would be greater in the red part of the sensory map, ie, in this place would be the ideal product. However, the PrefMFA showed a larger red area, even positioned in the barycenter of three real products. The small differences in the positioning of the samples in both sensory spaces are due to the fact that they share the same perceptual space. Considering that the experiment was carried out in individual sensory booths and that DA was performed by trained assessors who evaluated the sensory profile analytically, it can be stated that the liking of the bacon is based on its sensory properties. From this, Tuorila, (2007) argued that the sensory properties of foods and beverages are the basis of their acceptance and consumption.

3.2.2. Projective mapping

Figure 4 shows the positioning of the samples considering the projective mapping as sensory technique. The positioning of the samples was different when the hedonic information was included in the MFA. This can be explained by the nature of the PM, which studies the sample representation. Representation from the social point of view is related to concepts, phrases, ideas, opinions, attitudes and values (Gómez-Corona et al., 2016).

When PrefMap was used, two clearly separated regions were observed: the red region composed of the most preferred samples (LS2, Bamboo, Commercial, Acacia) and the blue region composed of the least preferred samples (Eucalyptus and LS1). This arrangement of samples with high preferences was like that of the DA. It was also observed that no sample was close to the region of maximum preference. On the other hand, the PrefMFA also showed two clear regions of preference, where Eucalyptus, Acacia and LS1 had the lowest preference, while LS2, commercial and Bamboo had the highest preference.

It is necessary to emphasize that PrefMFA showed samples very close to the region of maximum preference, ie, close to the ideal product. This is probably due to the fact that this map contains perceptual information based on consumer coupled with consumer-based hedonic perception. Therefore, joining information provided only by consumers seems to improve the identification of the ideal bacon.

3.2.3. CATA questions

The positioning of the samples obtained by CA and MFA was similar for both multivariate procedures. As in the case of the DA, this is due to the fact that the sensory properties were the main drivers of liking. According to Figure 5, PrefMap and PrefMFA found similar preferred patterns, with commercial, bamboo and LS2 being the most preferred samples and Acacia, eucalyptus and LS2 the least preferred ones. In both multivariate methods the ideal product is close to bamboo, LS2 and the commercial bacons. The CATA method explicitly showed the ideal product coinciding with the position with the highest density preference in its respective preference map.

3.3. Comparison of the sensory methods and multivariate procedures

To compare the different sensory spaces in function of the sensory method and multivariate technique, the MFA using the coordinates of each sensory space was used. Figure 6 (which maintained 74.82% of the explained variance) shows, on the one hand, the position of each sensory method coupled to a given multivariate technique considering all samples (group representation) (Saldaña et al., 2015) and, on the other hand, the representation of each sample considering the different sensory techniques and statistical procedure used to obtain the sensory space (map of individual factors) (Pagès y Husson, 2014).

According to the "group representation", sensory space was the main cause of variations in the preference mapping, where the descriptive analysis performed by trained assessors was different from the consumer-based methods. This result was expected, since consumers and trained assessors use different cognitive strategies to evaluate the samples; while judges are analytical, consumers are holistic and intuitive. Similar results were found by Dooley et al. (2010), who reported that, despite the spatial similarity between the samples, the description of the ideal product was different. Sensory methods based on consumer response (PM and CATA) were similar. This is explained, as already mentioned, by the cognitive process used by consumers. This behavior was previously reported by other studies (Cadena et al., 2014; Hopfer y Heymann, 2013). Despite the small differences between multivariate techniques, they did not show a clear pattern of behavior for the consumer-based methods. For DA, the results were similar.

The "individual factor map" showed that the main differences between the sensory methods and the multivariate techniques for each sample are specifically in the second dimension. It is necessary to emphasize that for the most (LS2) and least (LS1) preferred products by consumers, there were no variations in the perceptual space. Therefore, if it is desired to find the ideal product from the position of the preferred products, little variation will be found between the sensory methods and multivariate techniques used to calculate the sensory space.

Overall, the ideal product is between the commercial product, LS2 and Bamboo. From this information, detailed explorations should be carried out based on the consumer's perception considering their individual differences, ie, identifying possible groups of consumers with their respective ideal products.

4. Conclusions

All preference maps showed two large regions, those of high and low preference. The most accepted bacon samples (according to the hedonic test) were always located in the high preference region. Our findings indicate that the sensory method had greater impact to obtain the sensory space than the multivariate technique. Therefore, the inclusion of hedonic scores in the calculation of the sensory space will not have a great effect on the identification of the ideal product. Subsequent studies with other food matrices are still necessary in order to generalize our results.

Acknowledgments

The authors are grateful to the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP, Brazil), for funding the project No. 2016/15012-2. Erick Saldaña would like to thank the ‘‘Consejo Nacional de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Tecnológica" (CONCYTEC, Peru) for the Ph.D Scholarship (Contract 104-2016-FONDECYT). Mariana Marinho Martins and Beatriz Schmidt Menegali acknowledges Coordination for the Impro- vement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES) for the MSc scholarship.

 

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Received February 11, 2019.

Accepted March 17, 2019.

 

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