Article | REF: BE9770 V1

Cold chain.Preservation refrigerated and frozen food

Authors: Evelyne DERENS-BERTHEAU, Guy LETANG

Publication date: September 10, 2017, Review date: April 26, 2021

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4. Influence of freezing and storage on food quality

4.1 Expressing the quality of a frozen food product

According to the standard ISO 8402 Quality is the set of properties and characteristics of a product or service that give it the ability to satisfy expressed or implicit needs.

A frozen food is considered to be of high quality as long as sensory analysis fails to detect a significant difference from its initial quality at the probability threshold P = 0.01. This quality difference, known as the "just noticeable difference", is established when, in a triangular test, 70% of experienced tasters can detect a difference between the product tested and a reference sample stored at very low temperature (T...

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