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Evaluation on home storage performance of table grape based on sensory quality and consumers’ satisfaction

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With continuous rise of table grapes consumption and increased public awareness of food safety, the quality control of grapes in storage after purchase is not sufficiently examined. Home storage constitutes the last and important stage in grape supply chain. Literature review shows that few researches on grape quality focus on the home storage stage compared with numerous researches reported on the quality control during postharvest and transportation process. This paper reports the performance evaluation of grape quality at home storage and consumers’ satisfaction using integrated sensory evaluations. The internal attributes, including Texture, Taste and Odor of the table grapes and the appearance indices, Color and Cleanliness are examined. Key results show that during home storage, all the internal attributes decrease rapidly as time goes on, and cleanliness and color appear to be deteriorating in a lower speed. A comprehensive quality index was created to measure the quality of table grape which has high correlation with the Overall acceptability perceived by consumers.

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Acknowledgments

This research is sponsored by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 31371538) and China Agricultural Research System (CARS-30, national grape industrial system). Thank all the panelists for participating in the sensory evaluation experiment and the anonymous reviewers who made constructive comments.

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  1. Pharmaceutical College, Henan University, Kaifeng, People’s Republic of China, 475004

    Changyang Ma

  2. Beijing Lab for Food Quality and Safety, China Agricultural University, 209#, No. 17 Qinghua Donglu, Haidian District, Beijing, 100083, People’s Republic of China

    Changyang Ma, Zetian Fu & Xiaoshuan Zhang

  3. Portsmouth Business School, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, Hampshire, PO1 3DE, UK

    Mark Xu

  4. Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana, Večna pot 113, SI-1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia

    Mira Trebar

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• A Sensory Evaluation of the table grape stored at home is carried out rigiously. • The weight of each quality attribute is determined through the Delphi method for the relationship of them with the quality. • A single aggregative comprehensive quality index of table grape is attended by using the Fuzzy Synthetic Evaluation with the weight of quality indices. • The changes of each index’s contribution to the quality through the storage time is analyzed. • The quality of the sample of table grape is predicted through the Curve Estimation.

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Ma, C., Fu, Z., Xu, M. et al. Evaluation on home storage performance of table grape based on sensory quality and consumers’ satisfaction. J Food Sci Technol 53, 1363–1370 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13197-016-2177-0

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