5th E3S Symposium “Thinking out of the box: sensory present and future”

THINKING OUT OF THE BOX: SENSORY PRESENT & FUTURE

5TH E3S SYMPOSIUM – THE NETHERLANDS 2016

9- 10 May 2016
Unilever R&D Vlaardingen
Olivier van Noortlaan 120
3133 AT Vlaardingen, The Netherlands

European Sensory Science Society
organised in collaboration with
MOA – Center for Marketing Intelligence and Research
University of Wageningen

Register now – Workshop may 10th – Deadline for Registration: April 20th

Register now to the E3S activties – May 9th 

Monday, May 9th 2016

E3S WORKSHOPS & GENERAL ASSEMBLY

E3S is arranging a General Assembly and Working Group Workshops on Monday 9thof May at the Delta hotel.

The E3S General Assembly will be held the 9th from 17-19.00 and will be followed by a common dinner.

Program – Monday 9th of May
Delta hotel, Vlaardingen

• 13.00-14.00 E3S Sensitivity Working Group Meeting
  coordinated by Erminio Monteleone, University of Florence
• 14.00-14.30 Coffee break

Parallel sessions:

• 14.30-16.00 E3S Education Working Group Workshop
  coordinated by Catherine Dacremont, Agrosup Dijon – Centre des Sciences du Goût et de l’Alimentation
• 14.30-16.00 E3S Children Working Group Workshop
  coordinated by Monica Laureati, University of Milan

• 16.30-17.00 E3S PDO Working Group Workshop
• 17.00-19.00 E3S General Assembly
• 19.30 Dinner

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DETAILED PROGRAM OF THE ACTIVITIES – Monday, May 9th 2016:

• 14.30-16.00 E3S Education Working Group Workshop
  coordinated by Catherine Dacremont, Agrosup Dijon – Centre des Sciences du Goût et de l’Alimentation
  1) Bilateral exchange programs
  2) Interactive lectures on sensory
  3) Presentation of Sensory programs in the Netherland
  4) Increasing awareness of career as sensory analysts
• 14.30-16.00 E3S Children Working Group Workshop
  coordinated by Monica Laureati, University of Milan
  Consumer testing with children: toward a healthier direction
  Food preferences play a central role in the prediction of human food choices, especially in children. Hedonic methods tailored for children are of fundamental importance to understand children’s food behavior and to guide them to a healthier diet. The aim of the mini-workshop is to encourage the exchange of research-based knowledge on the mechanisms influencing children’s sensory perception and food preferences. The topics that will be dealt with concern the application of new approaches in the field of consumer testing with children as well as the presentation of evidence-based strategies to encourage healthy eating habits among children.
  Program:
  • Welcome by Monica Laureati, Coordinator of E3S Children WG
    –   E3S Children group: Aim and principles
    –   Introduction to the workshop and presentation of participants
  • Presentation of recent discoveries and projects
  • Jérémie Lefraire, Institut Paul Bocuse, France
    Food rejection and categorization in young children
    Recently, it has been suggested that the two main forms of food rejection: food neophobia and picky/fussy eating could be the behavioral manifestations of an immature food categorization system. The general aim of this presentation will be twofold: i) to present the rationale behind this relationship between food rejection and the early development of food categories and ii) to present the first empirical results supporting this idea.
  • Gertrude Zeinstra, Wageningen UR Food & Biobased Research, The Netherlands
    Strategies to encourage vegetable intake in children
    Children’s vegetable intake is below the recommendations and research has shown that it is a real challenge to increase their intake. New and easy-to-apply approaches are needed. In one project, we investigated whether using an individualized approach to increase the vegetable content of a favorite child-dish could be helpful in increasing vegetable intake among 10-12-year olds. In another project, we investigated the effect and feasibility of a repeated exposure intervention with unfamiliar vegetables at Dutch day care centers.
  • Frida Vennerød, Nofima, Norway
    The relationship between taste sensitivity and preferences in preschoolers.
    What is the relationship between sensitivity for the basic tastes, and preferences for different intensities of basic tastes? Results from the first two years of a longitudinal study with preschoolers will be presented. We will address the development of taste sensitivity and taste preferences from age four to age five, and discuss how these two are related to each other.
  • Hannah Jilani, Leibniz-Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology – BIPS, Germany
    Children’s sweet and fat sensitivity and preference: familial aggregation, health outcomes and food choice
    To what extend are children’s sweet and fat sensitivity and preference similar to sensitivity and preference of their parents? And how are these characteristics related to overweight and sweet as well as fatty food choice in 11 to 15 year old children/adolescents? We investigated sweet and fat sensitivity and preference in children/adolescents from 8 European countries and related the results to different potential correlates (e.g. country, sex and age) and outcomes (e.g. overweight and food choice).
  •  Discussion during and after presentations
• 16.30-17.00 E3S PDO Working Group Workshop
  Introduction – Aim and activity of the WG PDO –  Carolina Chaya
  Results of the survey of sensory analysis for official control in Italy, Spain and France – Margaret Everitt
  First results of the consumer survey – Guido Ritter
  
• 17.00-19.00 – E3S General Assembly
• 19.30 – Dinner

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Tuesday, May 10th 2016