ACCEPTANCE OF PASSION FRUIT SYMBIOTIC DIET DAIRY DESSERT BY ELDERLY
Keywords:
sensory analysis, functional food, probiotics, prebiotics.Abstract
Consumers' concern wi th a healthful feeding has contributed for manufacture of products with bet ter nut ri t ional quali ty and functional properties, some focused on specific public. The objective of this work was to evaluate the acceptance of a passion fruit symbiotic diet dairy dessert for elderly. Inulin and oligofructose were added as prebiotics and Lactobacillus paracasei as probiotic. Sensory acceptance of the product was evaluated through an affective test using hedonic scale and a test of purchase intention, carried out between the seventh and the tenth day of the dessert storage, with 50 people between 60 and 67 years old, participants of a UNOPAR project destined to the thi rd age people. The desser t had good acceptance by the elderly consumers, since 70% of the test participants attributed scores in the acceptance range of the hedonic scale and 70% answered that probably or certainly they would buy that dessert. The addition of probiotic microorganism and prebiotics in the passion fruit diet dairy dessert resulted in a product with characteristics considered att ract ive by the elderly public.Downloads
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