Facilities designed to support the development, reformulation and validation of food products, focusing on sensory quality and consumer experience.
Equipped to conduct descriptive, affective, and preference studies with trained panels and consumers. This allows attributes such as taste, texture, aroma, or appearance to be measured, and the acceptance of or differentiation between products to be assessed under controlled conditions.

Sectors: Food and Health, Food sector, Ingredients industry
Research lines: Consumer behaviour and trends, Food Quality and Safety, New foods and technologies, Personalised nutrition and health
Research sublines: Analysis of behaviour and emotional response (neuromarketing), Formulation and transformation, Innovation in foods for special needs, Minimising food safety risks, New ingredients with specific and health properties, Processing and conserving technologies, Sensory analysis and consumer preferences