ProfiSens - A PROFILE ANALYSIS SUPPORTING SOFTWARE IN FOOD INDUSTRY, RELATED RESEARCH AND EDUCATION

Abstract

The Sensory Laboratory of Postharvest Department (Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Public Administration, BUESPA) has a specially designed sensory booth system which was established in accordance with the relevant ISO standards \cite2. The researchers of the Sensory Laboratory (BUESPA) and of the Department of Chemical Information Technology (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, BUTE) developed a profile analysis supporting software, the ProfiSens. The main functions of ProfiSens are the following: it creates kitchen lists for the sample preparation and score sheets for the assessors, collects data from the completed score sheets, performs statistical data evaluation and draws diagrams of the results. The language of the software is Visual Basic for Excel. The first version of ProfiSens has been used in the 2002/2003 academic year in research, education and industrial food tests as well. In our paper we discuss the results of each mentioned field and introduce the latest developments on the software.