Comparative evaluation of the quality of DOP cheeses using the descriptor-profile method of tasting analysis
The article is devoted to the study of the quality of cheeses with protected geographical names (DOP), exported and produced on the territory of the Russian Federation using the descriptor-profile method of tasting analysis. Thus, the data on the production of agricultural products per capita for the period 2000-2014 are systemized, the role of food security for the state sovereignty is defined, with the cheese market being analyzed after the Russian Federation introduced the food embargo. It is also revealed that the import of cheese from the Netherlands fell by 56% (in physical terms), from Lithuania by 35%, Finland by 41%, Germany by 65%..and Ukraine by 77%. Quality researches on organoleptic parameters of analogues of cheeses Parmigiano Reggiano, Ricotta and Mozzarella di Bufala, presented in the market of Ekaterinburg are carried out, with the methods of system and statistical analysis, physical and chemical and organoleptic methods of analysis, etc. being used. A group of selected tasters and experts at the laboratory of the Department of Food Technology of USUE developed descriptor panels identified by their intensity. It was revealed that the quality of research subjects does not correspond to authentic cheeses according to the set of indicators