Dr David Kilcast is a consultant in Sensory Quality.

• Measurement of the sensory quality of food: An introduction. Part 1 Principles and practice: Food appearance quality assessment and specification; Principles of food flavour analysis; Principles of solid food texture analysis; Principles of food viscosity analysis. Part 2 Advances in methods for instrumental assessment of food sensory quality: Food colour measurement using computer vision; Gas chromatography-olfactometry (GC-O), electronic noses and tongues for in vivo food flavour measurement; Non-destructive methods for food texture assessment; In-mouth measurement of food quality; Emerging flavour analysis methods for food authentication; Advances in analysis of instrumental food sensory quality data. Part 3 Instrumental assessment of the sensory quality of particular foods and beverages: Instrumental assessment of the sensory quality of meat, poultry and fish; Instrumental assessment of the sensory quality of baked goods; Measurement of the texture of dry crisp products; Instrumental assessment of the sensory quality of dairy products; Instrumental assessment of the sensory quality of fruit and vegetables; Instrumental assessment of the sensory quality of wine; Instrumental assessment of the sensory quality of beer; Instrumental assessment of the sensory quality of juices.

"Food scientists survey some instrumental approaches to measuring food quality that correlate strongly with sensory quality assessments, in order to help companies bypass the expensive and tedious practice of having people actually taste their products. They cover principles and practice, methods, and the assessing the quality of specific foods. The topics include food appearance quality assessment and specification, principles of food viscosity analysis,…" --ProtoView.com, February 2014