International Taste Institute

Sensory Evaluation

A taste assessment of your products by the world's best chefs & sommeliers.

A professional evaluation and validation of your product’s taste by gastronomy experts

Research indicates that taste is the most important factor in the consumer’s decision-making process for food & drink purchases.

As a complement to internal panels and consumer tests, our sensory evaluations are carried out by a {{link2}}

Your product will be blind tasted by our jury following a rigorous methodology. You will then receive an assessment of where your product stands in terms of taste: an overall score, but also an evaluation of first impression, vision, olfaction, taste and texture (for food) or final sensation (for drinks).

Understand where you stand in terms of taste

For your new products

Gain an objective and independent assessment of your new products from experienced culinary experts & validate their taste.

For your product reformulations

Gain an objective and independent assessment of your reformulated products from experienced culinary experts & validate their taste.

For continuous quality control

Get expert third-party quality monitoring to ensure that your food or drink products consistently live up to the highest taste standards.

Thanks to the suggestions from the Taste Institute jury, we were able to improve our product.

Carla Barboto

General Director

Pacari, Ecuador

Our Secret Sauce

ITQI Best chefs & sommeliers in the world

The world’s top chefs & sommeliers at your service

Carefully selected based on their tasting experience; they’ve been spotlighted by chef and sommelier competitions or top gastronomic institutions.

First impression

Vision

Olfaction

Taste

Final sensation

Texture

A rigorous tasting process backed by an objective methodology

Our tasting is performed blind and in complete silence. Our chefs and sommeliers never make judgments based on their gut feeling; they follow an objective methodology based on the 5 International Hedonic Sensory Analysis criteria.

We are very proud of our world-class jury and rigorous methodology, making our evaluations and award the most serious and respected in the market

Ferran Centelles

Master Sommelier at El bulli Fondation

President of the Sommelier Jury

How does it work?

Send us your samples.

Products are tested.

Get your evaluation results & certification

Registration details & calendar

What will you get ?

Sensory Evaluation Score

Your product receives an overall score out of 100, as well as scores for each of the 5 sensory criteria.

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Evaluation Report

The optional evaluation report contains personalized comments and suggestions from our jury about your product. You can also have food and drink pairing suggestions, and have the opportunity to ask the jury specific questions about your product.

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