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2009
Volume 12
Issue 1
Topic:
Horticulture
ELECTRONIC
JOURNAL OF
POLISH
AGRICULTURAL
UNIVERSITIES
Czernyszewicz E. 2009. CHANGEABILITY OF CONSUMER PREFERENCES FOR SOME SENSORY FEATURES OF APPLES, EJPAU 12(1), #08.
Available Online: http://www.ejpau.media.pl/volume12/issue1/abs-08.html

CHANGEABILITY OF CONSUMER PREFERENCES FOR SOME SENSORY FEATURES OF APPLES

Eugenia Czernyszewicz
Department of Horticultural Economics, University of Life Sciences in Lublin, Poland

 

ABSTRACT


The purpose of the paper was to determine the strength and direction of the effect of demographic and socio-economic features of the consumers on the opinion and declaration concerning some sensory features of apples such as size, colour, taste and texture as well as to find out variability of preferences between the years 2002 and 2006.

The analysis was conducted on the basis of the data from questionnaire studies carried out among the inhabitants of Lublin. Results of the studies point out that the consumers' socio-economic and demographic features significantly differentiated the preferences, especially in 2006. Consumers most frequently prefer medium-sized apples, red or yellow ones with colouring, firm and sweet-sour taste. The year of conducting the studies had no significant effect on consumer preferences concerning the texture, while having an influence on preferences for the size of the fruit, the peel colour and the taste.

Key words: apples, sensory features, preferences.


Eugenia Czernyszewicz
Department of Horticultural Economics,
University of Life Sciences in Lublin, Poland
58 Leszczynskiego Street, 20-068 Lublin, Poland
phone/fax: (+48) 81 533 82 46
email: eugenia.czernyszewicz@up.lublin.pl

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