Check-All-That-Apply (CATA) with semi-trained assessors: Sensory profiles closer to descriptive analysis or consumer elicited data?

Overall results support the validity of CATA with ST assessors and suggest its potential for industrial use, when a timely and cost-efficient description of products is required. Attention should be given though when a detailed quantitative profile of sample differences is required, since intensity is not well represented by CATA derived measurements due to the method constraints.