Table 5.
Sensory evaluation results of the dark chocolates according to sweeteners.
Sensory attribute | Ingredient sweetener | F-value |
Sucrose | Maltitol | Sorbitol | Xylitol |
Smell | 8.00±1.54a | 7.47±1.83ab | 6.70±1.74b | 7.87±1.60a | 2.80 |
Taste | | | | | |
sour | 5.52±1.81b | 7.08±1.73a | 6.43±1.67ab | 7.30±1.61a | 5.06 |
sweet | 6.61±1.62a | 6.61±2.04a | 5.35±1.70b | 7.39±2.19a | 4.56 |
bitter | 6.57±1.90a | 6.96±2.25a | 6.48±1.86a | 7.65±1.50a | 1.83 |
Hardness | 8.43±1.27a | 7.87±1.46b | 7.95±1.72b | 8.43±1.56a | 0.93 |
Overall acceptance | 6.35±1.97b | 6.22±1.98b | 5.87±2.10b | 7.52±1.95a | 2.96 |
Like extremely: 9 ↔ Dislike extremely: 1
Values with different superscripts within the same column are significantly different by ANOVA with Duncan's multiple range test at p<0.05.