Advance in the application of rapid descriptive sensory methods

As the constant improvement demand at feasibility and practicability of food sensory descriptive method, consequently, conventional method is facing great challenge. Recently, The trend of descriptive analysis method is in the direction of rapid and efficient. This overview concerns an investigation of the current rapid descriptive sensory methods, including the Flash Profile, Sorting Procedure, Projective Mapping, Napping, Ranking Descriptive Analysis and Optimized Descriptive Profile. Finally, advantages and disadvantages of these methods will be discussed in a comparative way and the future of descriptive sensory analysis is also forecasted.