03256naa a2200349 a 450000100080000000500110000800800410001902400390006010000170009924501370011626000090025350006010026252016380086365000100250165300090251165300140252065300260253465300220256070000150258270000230259770000200262070000160264070000160265670000170267270000170268970000160270670000150272270000190273770000140275670000170277077301190278710274492020-05-11       2006    bl uuuu     u00u1 u    #d7 a10.1016/j.meatsci.2006.03.0102DOI1 aOLIVER, M.A.  aEating quality of beef, from different production systems, assessed by German, Spanish and British consumers.h[electronic resource]  c2006  aArticle history: Received 3 November 2005 // Received in revised form 10 March 2006 // Accepted 10 March 2006. Acknowledgements: This authors thank the Agencia Espan?ola de Cooperacio´n Internacional (AECI), the Instituto Nacional de Investigacio´n Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA) de Espan?a and the Intituto Nacional de Investigacio´n Agraria (INIA) from Uruguay for the financial support to the project. We thank the technicians from the different teams as well as Nigel Scollan at the Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research (Wales, UK) for his help in recruiting consumers in Wales.  aThe acceptability of beef from Uruguay (UY), based on eating quality, was compared with beef produced in different European countries (Germany, DE, Spain, ES and United Kingdom, UK). Consumer tests were conducted in DE, ES and UK (each comprising 200 consumers) using ?Hall Tests?. In each country four samples were evaluated, two from Hereford steers from UY (finished at 2 and 3 years) and two from local meat (the same meat sample aged 7 or 20 d). Consumers evaluated tenderness, flavour and overall acceptability using 8-point category scales. Hierarchical cluster analysis, highlighted the existence of different clusters of consumers. Two main clusters were identified in DE and UK. The main cluster identified in DE, was labelled as Prefer foreign-imported beef (n = 128). These consumers preferred (P < 0.05) the samples from UY_2y in terms of tenderness and overall acceptability. The other cluster was labelled as Prefer local beef in terms of flavour and overall acceptability (P < 0.05) and comprised the majority of consumers from ES (n = 176) and UK (n = 153) and the cluster 2 from DE (n = 69). UK, cluster 2 (n = 33) that did not discriminate between origin and ageing time of beef. These results indicate that consumers did not prefer the same type of meat within the same country and it is possible that there are individual preferences that could lead to the concept of market segmentation being based on taste preferences. It would appear that Uruguayan beef would be very acceptable in Germany and to a lesser extent in Britain and Spain, although further studies are required that include labelling information.  aCARNE  aBEEF  aCONSUMERS  aOVERALL ACCEPTABILITY  aPRODUCTION SYSTEM1 aNUTE, G.R.1 aFONT I FURNOLS, M.1 aSAN JULIÁN, R.1 aCAMPO, M.M.1 aSAÑUDO, C.1 aCAÑEQUE, V.1 aGUERRERO, L.1 aALVAREZ, I.1 aDIAZ, M.T.1 aBRANSCHEID, W.1 aWICKE, M.1 aMONTOSSI, F.  tMeat Science, November 2006, Volume 74, Issue 3, Pages 435-442. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.meatsci.2006.03.010