We employ a team of skilled experts and advanced techniques to examine product attributes and sensory profiles thoroughly. Our services empower you to fine-tune your products for optimal sensory appeal and consumer satisfaction using descriptive analysis.

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We specialize in enhancing the sensory elements of your products. Our team of experts utilizes cutting-edge techniques to carefully analyze and determine the sensory attributes, enabling you to create exceptional products that exceed expectations regarding taste, texture, and overall sensory experience.

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Consumer testing encompasses a large portion of sensory objectives to understand your product through your consumers’ perceptions. In addition to collecting data on liking and preferences, we are able to identify the key product characteristics that drive consumers’ overall liking for your product type. Bring your target audience into a centralized, controlled location to receive your consumers’ quantitative and qualitative feedback to ensure the continued success of your product. 

In-home use Testing is vital to understanding how consumers feel about a food or non-food product in the context of their real lives. Mérieux NutriSciences sends consumers home with a testing kit and comprehensive product evaluation instructions. The home users put their feedback directly into our Sensory software system for fast and agile data analysis. 

Consumers can develop complex relationships with products and ideas. Traditional surveys may not be able to parse out the nuances of these relationships and a deeper dive may be needed. To answer these questions, Mérieux NutriSciences uses focus groups or one-on-one interviews to better understand the thoughts and behaviors consumers have towards food or non-food products or product concepts with comprehensive reporting to summarize the findings from the group.

When you need to know that your product will not change due to production adjustments, ingredient substitutions, or new supplier onboarding, difference testing is a cost-effective and direct way to determine whether panelists can detect those changes in the final product. 

Mérieux NutriSciences has personable and highly trained Sensory Scientists available to train your diverse teams to meet any needs. An initial consultation ensures the training is customized to meet your company's goals. We work with you to create a training program suitable for your stakeholders, from Operations & Quality, to Marketing and Sales.

Sensory evaluation is an important component of a robust quality monitoring program. Mérieux NutriSciences is a partner to host supplier sensory cuttings within one of our testing facilities or at your site. Sensory program management can be set up as a stand-alone service or in conjunction with a Mérieux NutriSciences-managed quality monitoring program.

Our Digital Solutions team can even incorporate sensory data into your larger supply chain management systems for long-term data visualization. 

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See how consumer liking and product profiles change over time within our Shelf Life Study capabilities.

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