Patent ID: 6978243

Claim:
A method for visually presenting the taste attributes of a sample comprising: (a) providing a subject; (b) providing the subject with a sensory perception scale for taste on a computing device containing a plurality of attributes selected from the group consisting of sweetness, saltiness, bitterness, sourness, mintiness, coolness, grittiness, burning, biting, tingling, bad after taste, and metallic; said sensory perception scale having variable positions; (c) providing the subject with a test sample and requesting said subject to sample the test sample; (d) asking the subject to rate from 4 to 6 attributes of the samples selected from the group consisting of from sweetness, saltiness, bitterness, sourness, mintiness, coolness, grittiness, burning, biting, tingling, bad after taste, and metallic; by manipulating the positions of the perception scale; and (e) providing the position of the variable position scale to a computing means, said computing means providing a simultaneous visual interpretation on a screen of the attributes of the sample.