Individual Differences in the Perception of Color Solutions
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Methods
2.1. Participants
2.2. Color Solutions
2.3. Statistics
3. Results
4. Discussion
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
References
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Presentation Order | Color | Preparation |
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1 | Orange | 2.5 mg Chromotrope FB + 45 mg Quinoline Yellow/100 mL water |
2 | White | Milk, fat content 1.5% (UHT, Valio, Helsinki, Finland) |
3 | Blue | 2.5 mg Patent Blue V, sodium salt/100 mL water |
4 | Yellow | 50 mg Quinoline Yellow/100 mL water |
5 | Green | 25 mg Quinoline Yellow + 1.25 mg Patent Blue V, sodium salt/100 mL water |
6 | Red | 25 mg Chromotrope FB/100 mL water |
1. | 2. | 3. | |
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Most pleasant | Red 37% | Orange 22% | White 14% |
Least pleasant | White 29% | Yellow 22% Green 22% | Blue 20% |
Most healthy | White 53% | Red 22% | Green 14% |
Least healthy | Blue 65% | Green 16% | Yellow 13% |
Most sweet | Red 34% Orange 34% | Yellow 13% | Green 9% |
Least sweet | White 49% | Yellow 20% | Blue 19% |
Most sour | Yellow 54% | Red 24% | Orange 11% |
Least sour | White 67% | Red 8% Orange 8% | Blue 7% |
% Subjects Selecting as 1st in the Attribute | p Chi-Square * | p Mann–Whitney ** | |
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Gender | |||
Red–healthiness | Females 17% Males 40% | 0.001 | 0.008 |
Red–sweetness | Females 39% Males 18% | 0.013 | 0.020 |
Red–sourness | Females 19% Males 40% | 0.006 | 0.007 |
BMI | |||
White–healthiness | Normal weight 61%, overweight 45% | 0.029 | 0.06 |
Orange–sweetness | Normal weight 28% Overweight 43% | 0.029 | 0.024 |
Orange–sourness | Normal weight 15% Overweight 5% | 0.022 | 0.035 |
Age | |||
White–healthiness | Younger 61% Older 45% | 0.024 | 0.028 |
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Hoppu, U.; Puputti, S.; Aisala, H.; Laaksonen, O.; Sandell, M. Individual Differences in the Perception of Color Solutions. Foods 2018, 7, 154. https://doi.org/10.3390/foods7090154
Hoppu U, Puputti S, Aisala H, Laaksonen O, Sandell M. Individual Differences in the Perception of Color Solutions. Foods. 2018; 7(9):154. https://doi.org/10.3390/foods7090154
Chicago/Turabian StyleHoppu, Ulla, Sari Puputti, Heikki Aisala, Oskar Laaksonen, and Mari Sandell. 2018. "Individual Differences in the Perception of Color Solutions" Foods 7, no. 9: 154. https://doi.org/10.3390/foods7090154