excellence in professional tasting…
The products, training and expertise to help your taste panel perform at its best.
Our Products & Services
We’ve been helping food and beverage companies for over 30 years make better tasting and better quality products.
AROXA™ Flavour Standards
Our certified flavour standards are used by global food and drink companies to develop the skills of their professional tasters. Let us help you by training your taste panel to detect off-flavours, taints and positive flavour notes, and improve the quality and objectivity of your sensory testing.
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Taster Validation Schemes
Everyone knows that taster competence is key to the success of any tasting programme. But how can tasting skills be measured? The answer is to use Taster Validation Schemes. We have a variety of different options available, whether you’re large or small, with a range of testing schemes including Identification, Rank-Rating (Scaling) and In/Out tests. Our powerful performance monitoring software will help you identify where you need to target and make the most of the resources available to you.
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E-Learning – Nexus by Cara Technology
Nexus by Cara Technology is our online e-learning platform, bringing professional brewing and sensory science training to your team wherever they are. Built around AROXA™ flavour standards, our self-paced courses let learners develop and certify their tasting skills at a time and place that suits them. Whether you’re onboarding new panellists or developing experienced assessors, Nexus makes structured sensory education accessible online.
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Training Courses
We’ve been training taste panels for over 30 years. Our team has a wealth of experience across the food and drink industries and can help you achieve your goals. We offer both in-person and online training courses to best suit your needs, whether you’re just starting out or want to become an advanced taster.
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Sensory Evaluation Services
Our highly-skilled professional taste panel will taste your products under “blind” conditions. Our internal taste panel are trained in close to 150 attributes and are competent in a wide range of sectors including beer, malt, soft drinks, energy drinks, raw materials, personal care and more. We can provide you with a comprehensive analysis of your product, whether it be for marketing purposes, troubleshooting or descriptive profiling of brands.
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Consultancy & Troubleshooting
Over 30 years we’ve fixed hundreds of process problems, saving clients millions and helping them grow their sales. Every company has problems, small or large. The key to success is the ability to choose which problems to tackle first and to systematically diagnose their causes. With knowledge of the cause, a solution is never far away, and steps can then be put in place to prevent a re-occurrence.
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SensCheck™ Sensory Software
Attention to detail really matters in tasting. Doing things in a consistent way is important, but doing the right thing is important too. Our SensCheck™ software allows you to train your tasters, assess their competence, and run all your routine sensory tasting online. Say goodbye to paper forms and take a look at our multi-language, web-based solution which is used by hundreds of companies in the food and beverage industries all over the world.
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