Sensory and Consumer Science for a More Sustainable World

Dear Colleagues,

Due to urgent global challenges, there is an urgent need to shift our behaviours to be more sustainable. The United Nations has set up 17 sustainable development goals that they hope to accomplish by the year 2030 that aim to achieve a more sustainable future. In the field of sensory and consumer science, ‘Sustainable Sensory Science’ was the theme for the Pangborn Sensory Science Symposium 2021, suggesting that sustainability also became a hot and key research topic in our field. This area of research is evolving quickly, especially within the past couple of years, where we have been forced to think outside the box to conduct research.

This Special Issue aims to bring together researchers across different disciplines to highlight how their research can contribute to more a sustainable world.

This Special Issue will focus on the following research areas:

• Sustainability in sensory and consumer science methodologies:
  • Sensory and consumer science methodology development (obtaining ecologically valid and meaningful data);
  • Digital innovation technologies in sensory and consumer research – e.g., use of artificial intelligence to simplify data collection process, digital innovation technologies in sensory analytical data (e.g., e-tongue, e-noses, etc.).
• Understanding the sensory and consumer perceptions of sustainable foods and diets, sustainable behavioural habits, and laboratory practices – e.g., sustainable food products such as alternative proteins, sustainable packaging, sustainable sensory, and consumer laboratory practices.

Overall, we wish to bring together different areas of research in the sensory and consumer science discipline that address the topic of sustainability to showcase the diversity and innovation in this evolving research area.

Dr. Julia Low
Dr. Qian Yang
Dr. Lisa Newman
Guest Editors

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