Blar i NOFIMA vitenarkiv på forfatter "Ares, Gastón"
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Attentional capture and importance of package attributes for consumers' perceived similarities and differences among products: A case study with breakfast cereal packages
Varela, Paula; Antúnes, Lucía; Cadena, Rafael Silva; Giménes, Ana; Ares, Gastón (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014) -
Can children use temporal sensory methods to describe visual and food stimuli?
Velázquez, Ana Laura; Vidal, Leticia; Varela, Paula; Ares, Gastón (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Sensory scientists have adapted several sensory methods to fit children’s cognitive abilities according to their different developmental stages. Although children have been reported to be able to use sensory methods to ... -
Can children use the A-not a test?
Velázquez, Ana Laura; Vidal, Leticia; Varela, Paula; Ares, Gastón (Others, 2022)Sensory scientists have adapted several sensory methods to fit children's cognitive abilities. Although several discrimination methods have been reported with children, the A-not-A test has not been studied yet. The aims ... -
Capturing food-elicited emotions: Facial decoding of children’s implicit and explicit responses to tasted samples
Galler, Martina; Grendstad, Åse Riseng; Ares, Gastón; Varela, Paula (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Sensory and consumer research increasingly aims to gain direct input from children to study their eating behaviour. However, answering self-administered questionnaires can be challenging for children. In this sense, the ... -
Children’s sweet tooth: Explicit ratings vs. Implicit bias measured by the Approach avoidance task (AAT)
Galler, Martina; Mikkelsen, Emma; Næs, Tormod; Liland, Kristian Hovde; Ares, Gastón; Varela, Paula (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)The study aimed to assess the application of the Approach avoidance task (AAT) with children to measure implicit motivational tendencies towards foods differing in sweetness and calorie content and to explore the relationship ... -
Co-creation of a healthy dairy product with and for children
Velázquez, Ana Laura; Galler, Martina; Vidal, Leticia; Varela, Paula; Ares, Gastón (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Children's involvement in new product development may contribute to ensure that healthy alternatives meet their wants and needs. Co-creation is a potential approach to bridge the world of the child and the grown-up product ... -
Cross-modal interactions as a strategy for sugar reduction in products targeted at children: Case study with vanilla milk desserts
Velázquez, Ana; Vidal, Leticia; Varela, Paula; Ares, Gastón (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)The high availability of products with high sugar content, particularly among those targeted as children, has been identified as one of the factors that contribute to the childhood obesity epidemic. For this reason, product ... -
Development of food literacy in children and adolescents: implications for the design of strategies to promote healthier and more sustainable diets
Ares, Gastón; De Rosso, Sofia; Mueller, Carina; Phillipe, Kaat; Pickard, Abigail; Nicklaus, Sophie; van Kleef, Ellen; Varela, Paula (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Food literacy has emerged as a key individual trait to promote the transformation of food systems toward healthy and sustainable diets. Childhood and adolescence are key periods for establishing the foundations of eating ... -
Evaluation of Data Aggregation in Polarized Sensory Positioning
Antúnez, Lucía; Salvador, Ana; de Saldamando, Luis; Tomasco, Paula Alejandra Varela; Giménez, Ana; Ares, Gastón (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015) -
Influence of consumers' cognitive style on results from projective mapping
Varela, Paula; Antúnez, Lucía; Berget, Ingunn; Oliveira, Denize; Christensen, Kasper; Vidal, Leticia; Næs, Tormod; Ares, Gastón (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Projective mapping (PM), one of the most holistic product profiling methods in approach, is increasingly being used to uncover consumers' perception of products and packages. Assessors rely on a process of synthesis for ... -
The influence of label information on the snacks parents choose for their children: Individual differences in a choice based conjoint test
Velázquez, Ana Laura; Alcaire, Florencia; Vidal, Leticia; Varela, Paula; Næs, Tormod; Ares, Gastón (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Labels have been reported to influence children's perception and choice of foods. However, the influence of label information on parents’ food choices for their children has not received as much attention in the literature ... -
Influence of Poles on Results from Reference-Based Sensory Characterization Methodologies: Case Study with Polarized Projective Mapping Consumers
de Saldamando, Luis; Antúnez, Lucía; Giménez, Ana; Varela, Paula; Ares, Gastón (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015)One of the main steps related to the implementation of reference-based sensory characterization methodologies is the selection of the references, sometimes referred to as poles. However, research on the influence of the ... -
Influence of Poles on Results from Reference-Based Sensory Characterization Methodologies: Case Study with Polarized Projective Mapping Consumers
de Saldamando, Luis; Antúnez, Lucía; Giménez, Ana; Varela, Paula; Ares, Gastón (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015)One of the main steps related to the implementation of reference-based sensory characterization methodologies is the selection of the references, sometimes referred to as poles. However, research on the influence of the ... -
Listening to children voices in early stages of new product development through co-creation – Creative focus group and online platform
Galler, Martina; Myhrer, Kristine S.; Ares, Gastón; Varela, Paula (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)To tackle current nutritional issues like obesity, it could be valuable to involve children in the development of healthy food products that they will actively chose and enjoy. The aims of the present exploratory study ... -
Pole selection in Polarized Sensory Positioning: Insights from the cognitive aspects behind the task
Ares, Gastón; Antúnez, Lucía; Oliveira, Denize; Alcaire, Florencia; Giménez, Ana; Berget, Ingunn; Næs, Tormod; Tomasco, Paula Alejandra Varela (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015)Background The need for precise and stable taxonomic classification is highly relevant in modern microbiology. Parallel to the explosion in the amount of sequence data accessible, there has also been a shift in focus for ... -
Pole selection in Polarized Sensory Positioning: Insights from the cognitive aspects behind the task
Ares, Gastón; Antúnez, Lucía; Oliveira, Denize; Alcaire, Florencia; Giménez, Ana; Berget, Ingunn; Næs, Tormod; Tomasco, Paula Alejandra Varela (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015)Background The need for precise and stable taxonomic classification is highly relevant in modern microbiology. Parallel to the explosion in the amount of sequence data accessible, there has also been a shift in focus for ... -
Pole selection in Polarized Sensory Positioning: Insights from the cognitive aspects behind the task
Ares, Gastón; Antúnez, Lucía; Oliveira, Denize; Alcaire, Florencia; Giménez, Ana; Berget, Ingunn; Næs, Tormod; Tomasco, Paula Alejandra Varela (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015)Background The need for precise and stable taxonomic classification is highly relevant in modern microbiology. Parallel to the explosion in the amount of sequence data accessible, there has also been a shift in focus for ... -
Significant sugar-reduction in dairy products targeted at children is possible without affecting hedonic perception
Velázquez, Ana Laura; Vidal, Leticia; Alcaire, Florencia; Varela, Paula; Ares, Gastón (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)The objective of the present study was to evaluate children's hedonic sensitivity to sugar reduction in three dairy products: vanilla milk desserts, chocolate-flavoured milk, and vanilla yoghurt. For each product, a regular ... -
Sugar reduction in products targeted at children: Why are we not there yet?
Velázquez, Ana Laura; Vidal, Leticia; Varela, Paula; Ares, Gastón (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Sugar intake among children has raised concern worldwide as it exceeds nutritional recommendations. Sugar contributes to the daily energy intake, without providing additional nutritional value and is associated with several ... -
Trained vs. consumer panels for analytical testing: Fueling a long lasting debate in the field
Ares, Gastón; Varela, Paula (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)Sensory evaluation has traditionally been divided into two clearly defined areas: analytical tests, aimed at objectively evaluating the sensory characteristics of products, and hedonic tests, in which consumers evaluate ...