Data Reporting and Analysis

Panellists Triangle Test Simple Paired Duo-Trio Test

Comparison Test
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Figure 1

This experiment have three different test, triangle test, simple paired comparison test
and duo-trio test. For triangle test, there were three prepared sample that the panellists would
taste with. The two from three sample is the same brand while the other one is different brand.
The sample that were prepared during the test are from Revive brand and 100plus brand. From
this test, there were 14 people out of 17 people who got the sample right. Its mean that there
were three person who got the sample wrong. For simple paired comparison test, the panellist
were gave with two difference sample which were a sample with lowest sweetness and the
other one sample with highest sweetness. From this test, 12 panellists out of 17 panellists got
the correct answer for the taste of sample while the remaining got the wrong answer for the
taste of sample. In the addition, for duo-trio test, the panellist were gave with 3 sample which
is one sample as a reference and the other remaining two sample is the sample that the panellist
have to taste. The sample given is Coca Cola and Pepsi while the reference sample is Coca
Cola. From this test, only five panellists got the wrong answer while the remaining panellists
got the correct answer. From these different test, obtained that the tongue undergo adaptation
which is decrease in responsiveness under constant stimulation.
 Discussion

The purpose of the experiment was to determine whether there exists a perceptible
difference concerning a given attribute to the food sample and to detect taste thresholds such
as determining the concentration of a flavor in a food product. For this experiment, there are 3
difference tests, which were triangle test, simple paired comparison test and duo trio test. The
triangle test is a discriminative method with many uses in sensory science including determine
if an overall difference is present between two products. Simple paired comparison test was
used to indicate which of two samples has more of an attribute being tested or to indicate which
of two samples is preferred. Duo-trio test was an overall difference test, which will determine
whether a sensory difference exists between two samples. This method is particularly useful to
determine whether product differences result from a change in ingredients, processing,
packaging or storage.

For triangle tests, the sample that we used was isotonic drink which are from Revive
brand and 100 PLUS brand. For this test, the panellist should define from 3 samples which one
taste difference from others. From the result that we obtained, 14 from 17 panellist were correct
while others are wrongs. This happen because the colour and the smell of the samples does not
have any difference. Therefore, sometime our smell may affected the taste sensor and it will
make our taste become not to accurate.

For simple comparison test, the panellist need to know between 2 samples which one
is sweeter. The result that we obtained were 12 panellist were corrects. This because for this
test is not too difficult because the sample have very difference taste and it only just provide 2
samples only. Therefore, after we taste the samples we can already know which one was the
sweeter.

Then for duo trio test, we need to know which sample taste similar with the control
sample. Based on the observation the sample that had been used was CocaCola and Pepsi and
our results that we got for this experiment was 5 panellist were wrong. It happen because when
the panellist want to taste the next sample, they do not rinse there mouth properly and make
the taste from the left sample still have in their mouth and it will affected the taste of the right
sample.