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Presence Current · Arkansas
Last published 2021
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Shilpa S. Samant

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Researcher

Faculty Researcher

13 h-index 16 pubs 551 cited

  • Taste
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Emotions
  • Female
  • Food Preferences
  • Adult
  • Taste Perception
  • Facial Expression
  • Middle Aged
  • Consumer Behavior
  • Fruit and Vegetable Juices
  • Vegetable Products
  • Surveys and Questionnaires
  • Intention

Biography and Research Information

OverviewAI-generated summary

Shilpa S. Samant's research focuses on understanding factors that influence food palatability and consumer preferences, particularly in the context of dry pet food. She has investigated the impact of flavor enhancers on the acceptability of these products. Her work also touches upon taste perception and its connection to emotions and facial expressions in humans. Samant has published a review article on dry pet food flavor enhancers and their influence on palatability. She has an h-index of 13 and a total of 528 citations across 16 publications. Samant collaborates with researchers at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, including Han‐Seok Seo, Philip G. Crandall, and Sara Jarma Arroyo, with whom she has shared publications.

Metrics

  • h-index: 13
  • Publications: 16
  • Citations: 551

Selected Publications

  • Dry Pet Food Flavor Enhancers and Their Impact on Palatability: A Review (2021)
    Foods 51 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Influences of sensory attribute intensity, emotional responses, and non-sensory factors on purchase intent toward mixed-vegetable juice products under informed tasting condition (2020)
    Food Research International 53 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Using both emotional responses and sensory attribute intensities to predict consumer liking and preference toward vegetable juice products (2018)
    Food Quality and Preference 54 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Personality traits affect the influences of intensity perception and emotional responses on hedonic rating and preference rank toward basic taste solutions (2018)
    Journal of Neuroscience Research 23 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Effects of food neophobia on visual attention and sensory acceptance of ethnic-flavored foods (2017)
    Culture and Brain 17 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Predicting consumer liking and preference based on emotional responses and sensory perception: A study with basic taste solutions (2017)
    Food Research International 84 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Effects of smoking and marination on the sensory characteristics of cold-cut chicken breast filets: A pilot study (2016)
    Food Science and Biotechnology 10 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Tea-induced calmness: Sugar-sweetened tea calms consumers exposed to acute stressor (2016)
    Scientific Reports 14 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • The influence of beverages on residual spiciness elicited by eating spicy chicken meat: time‐intensity analysis (2016)
    International Journal of Food Science & Technology 13 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Effects of label understanding level on consumers’ visual attention toward sustainability and process-related label claims found on chicken meat products (2016)
    Food Quality and Preference 93 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Quality perception and acceptability of chicken breast meat labeled with sustainability claims vary as a function of consumers’ label-understanding level (2015)
    Food Quality and Preference 57 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Sensory impact of chemical and natural antimicrobials on poultry products: a review (2015)
    Poultry Science 30 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • The effect of varying educational intervention on consumers’ understanding and attitude toward sustainability and process-related labels found on chicken meat products (2015)
    Food Quality and Preference 19 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Variation in saltiness perception of soup with respect to soup serving temperature and consumer dietary habits (2014)
    Appetite 32 citations DOI OpenAlex

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