Opertech Bio to team up with Tate & Lyle on a novel approach to sugar reduction via TERRA accelerator
As part of the TERRA program, which pairs emerging growth companies with established multinationals - Opertech will work with Tate & Lyle using its TāStation (Taste+Station) technology, a novel approach to sensory testing utilizing games and rewards, which it claims enables human testers to analyze hundreds of samples in a fraction of the time - and with a greater degree of accuracy - than is possible using traditional taste panel testing.
Opertech Bio – which hit the headlines a few years ago by using highly trained rats to analyze the taste quality and palatability of scores of flavor samples simultaneously, a first for the industry – says TāStation does not rely on subjective rating scales of taste sensation (as is the case with traditional methods), and can be statistically powered (ie. is considered reliable) with as few as four subjects, given the amount of data generated in each session.
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