Patent Document ID: 20060041386
Application ID: 10951235
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method of analyzing industrial food products, cosmetics, and/or hygiene products in order to characterize them, distinguish between them, and/or modify them in order to improve them, by analyzing the responses of a panel of testers to certain descriptors, the method comprising the steps consisting in: a) selecting descriptors that are a priori pertinent for determining the organoleptic characteristics of the products; b) selecting a response mode selected from the group constituted by an on/off binary mode, a continuous mode over a range of values, and a discrete mode over a range of values; c) providing all of the descriptors simultaneously to the panel of testers for a determined duration in a measurement interface presenting a center and an input zone for each descriptor, the input zones being distributed uniformly over at least a section of at least one conic about the center of the interface; d) collecting the responses from each tester as a function of the selected response mode; e) recording the responses; and f) analyzing the responses using at least one statistical method.