Valrhona SA produces and distributes chocolate for the professional gastronomy sector. Its quality system is largely based on an incoming inspection of cocoa batches: verification of certain physico-chemical components and evaluation of the organoleptic characteristics of a chocolate prepared from the cocoa sample to be checked. The evaluation of the conformity of the sensory profile obtained is carried out at several levels: by comparison with the profiles obtained for cocoa of the same type and more globally by positioning the sample in the cartography of sensory poles, describing the universe of all types of cocoa used by Valrhona.
The overall objective of this project is to establish a method for directly predicting the "chocolate" organoleptic potential of a cocoa, without going through a tasting stage of the associated chocolate.
• WP1: Understanding sensory differences, identifying organoleptic markers to predict chocolate sensory specificities.
• WP 2 - Identifying cocoa biochemical markers and modelling their relationship with chocolate biochemical markers
• WP 3 - Data analysis and modelling
Project Number : 1505-003
Year : 2015
Type of funding : PP
Project type : PC
Research units in the network : ITAP SPO
Start date :
01 Nov 2015
End date :
30 Apr 2019
Flagship project :
Non
Project leader :
Renaud Boulanger
Project leader's institution :
CIRAD
Project leader's RU :
QUALISUD
Budget allocated :
250000 €
Total budget allocated ( including co-financing) :
500000 €
Funding :
Labex