Pizza Sensory Lab UK

16/01/2024

The aim of sensory science is understanding the interactions STIMULUS - RESPONSE
between biologically complex materials and a complex psychophysiological system:
SENSATION – PERCEPTION – COGNITION
within a cultural context and sociological

01/01/2024

The Hedonic test, in Sensory Science, is the test that enables us to give a "personal opinion" regarding our taste on a particular product. The latins used to say " De gustibus non est disputandum" (In matters of taste, there can be no disputes).But when we try and go a bit deeper and give a more specific answer to our senses applied to food tasting, we have to use scientific methods. Mozzarella vs Cheddar. Believe it or not some scientists have carried out some serious tests and here are some of the results. What do you prefer on your pizza? (link in the comments for the infographics)

Learn how to taste the most famous dish in the world using all the senses.

26/12/2023

Which of your senses do you use first to judge how good a pizza is?

20/12/2023

Interesting study with bibliographic references

The growing need for developing more efficient and sustainable technologies for the processing of bakery products leads to the need for replacing the current subjective methodology by an instrumental method to evaluate the quality of these products. In this work, relevant physic characteristics that...

20/12/2023

The Victorian journalist Count Charles Arrivabene in his 1862 book, Italy under Victor Emmanuel, said: "Pizza is a sort of dry cake made of flour, garlic and oil; a horrid composition of which nevertheless the Italians of the South are particularly fond". Fast forward to today and pizza is a truly global food, topped with just about anything and eaten by just about everyone. So we thought it a worthy contender for a lovefood taste test.

20/12/2023

Sensory science is a multidisciplinary field comprising measurement, interpretation and understanding of human responses to product properties as perceived by the senses such as sight, smell, taste, touch and hearing.

20/12/2023

Pizza is the most famous dish on the planet. We will help you learn how to taste it and understand if you are having the best deal for your mouth and body. Using Sensory sciences we will use our senses and become a trained taster.