Abstract
Consumption of vegetarian pizza is increasing worldwide for increasing popularity towards vegetarian diets. However, a proper description of sensorial attributes of vegetarian pizza is still not available in the existing scientific literature. Such characterization provides inevitable information for product’s evaluation and process improvement. Therefore, the present study was undertaken to objectively characterize the sensory attributes of vegetarian pizza using statistical tools. A descriptive score card comprising all the possible sensory attributes of pizza was drafted and finalized by group discussion with sensory evaluation experts. Thirty six pizza samples were collected from different Indian cities. Sensory evaluation was done using Quantitative Descriptive Analysis (QDA) and significant (p<0.05) difference among the market samples was observed. Principal Component Analysis (PC) revealed five principal components (PC) which accounted for 93% variation in the sensory data viz ., (1) cohesiveness of crust/cooking intensity/free moisture of cheese, (2) firmness/crispiness/type of crust, (3) cohesiveness/thickness of cheese, (4) chewiness, and (5) overall acceptability.
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