Market analysis, trend reports, and articles:
| 2020 | Pack(ag)ing a punch (Food Science and Technology) |
| 2019 | Veni, vidi, … Veg? (Carol Raithatha Limited) |
| How far can you go with fibre? (Carol Raithatha Limited) | |
| 2018 | How lunch can fuel your company culture (Management Today) |
| The mark of authenticity (Food Science and Technology) | |
| Start-ups promote innovation (Flavour Horizons) | |
| Bringing a career to the table (Carol Raithatha Limited) | |
| 2015 | Opportunities in Umami; Exploring the potential of the fifth taste (GlobalData) |
| Strategies for Managing Food and Drink Flavor Portfolios (Canadean) | |
| 2014 | The Future of Active, Intelligent and Interactive Packaging (Canadean) |
| 2013 | Flavor and Fragrance Innovation: Regional Inspirations (Canadean) |
| Food and beverage packaging today – what’s next? (just-food.com) | |
| 2012 | Innovations in Food and Drink Flavors: How Cross-category Flavor Migration is Helping to Create the Products of the Future (Datamonitor) |
| Premiumization Strategies for Food and Drinks Companies (Business Insights) | |
| Personal Care Trends Opportunities for the Food and Drinks Sector (Business Insights) | |
| Future Trends in Food and Drink Product Innovation (Business Insights) | |
| 2011 | Innovations in Salt Reduction in Food and Drinks (Business Insights) |
| The Future of Fat Reduction and Replacement in Food and Drinks (Business Insights) | |
| 2010 | The Future of Active and Intelligent Packaging in Food and Drinks (Business Insights) |
| 2009 | Innovation in Food and Drinks Packaging (Business Insights) |
| 2008 | Future Flavor Trends in Soft Drinks (Business Insights) |
| Future Flavor Trends in Food (Business Insights) |
Articles and book chapters on sensory and consumer science methods and trends:
| 2018 | Sensory and Consumer Science is Getting in Touch With Touch (IN-TOUCH) |
| Panel Quality Management: Performance, Monitoring and Proficiency (co-author with Lauren Rogers). Chapter in Descriptive Analysis in Sensory Evaluation (Wiley Blackwell) | |
| 2017 | Sensory panel performance measures. Chapter in Sensory Panel Management (Woodhead Publishing) |
| Multi-sensory design (Flavour Horizons) | |
| 2016 | Making it Real – Improving Ecological Validity of Sensory and Consumer Testing (Flavour Horizons) |
| 2015 | He Smells Apple – She Smells Golden Delicious: Gender Differences in Flavour Perception (Flavour Horizons) |
| 2014 | The role of sensory perception and sensory evaluation in the development of reduced sodium foods (Agro Food Industry Hi Tech) |
Recent presentations and posters:
(Please contact Carol if you would like more information about any of these)
| 2020 | Food colourful food: Colour and the psychology of food choice (Festival of Consumer Sciences) |
| 2019 | What are you looking at? The elements of food and drink packaging consumers pay attention to and why (Sensory Dimensions Workshop – The Packaging Revolution and Sustainable Solutions) |
| A Rainbow Future – The Growing Importance of Food Colour to Consumers (FAIA Summer Seminar) | |
| Sensing future packaging (13th Pangborn Sensory Science Symposium, Edinburgh) | |
| 2017 | Getting the context right for sensory and consumer testing – to control or not to control (IFST SSG discussion session) |
| Making it Real – Improving the Ecological Validity of Sensory and Consumer Testing (FlavourTalk 2017, Amsterdam) | |
| 2016 | Is gender a challenge for the performance of your sensory panel? (IFST SSG Conference) |
| 2015 | Consumer Insights: Will Consumers Compromise? (Nutraformulate) |
| 2014 | Examining the impact of increased competition on the development and marketing of healthy, natural and functional food and drink: how to stand out in a crowded market (Food Matters Live) |
| Exploring the Consumer’s Perspective: Overcoming Important Hurdles in Sodium Reduction (Fi Reformulation Conference) | |
| How Much do Consumers Value YOUR Functional Food Products? (with Lauren Rogers at Nutraformulate ) | |
| 2013 | Sensory and Consumer Testing Techniques to Aid the Development of Palatable Food Products with Reduced Sodium (Food Ingredients Europe) |
| Sensory and consumer research: Tools and developments in salt and fat reduction (Reduced Salt, Reduced Fat: Issues and Approaches IFR FHN Meeting) | |
| Panel Performance and Fast (with Lauren Rogers and Anne Hasted at IFST PFSG conference), International Panel Performance Survey 2012 Practices and Priorities (poster with Lauren Rogers at IFST PFSG conference) | |
| Designing functional foods that consumers like to eat (with Lauren Rogers at Nutraformulate) |
Academic papers:
Book reviews and meeting/conference reports:
| 2019 | Tasting the Future in Sensory and Consumer Science – E3S Annual Symposium (IFST) |
| ICG Eastern Region Visit to The History of Advertising Trust (ICG) | |
| How should we eat? (Dragon Hall Debate review) | |
| E3S Early Stage Researcher Group Webinar (IFST) | |
| The detail and the duty (review of AQR/ESOMAR GDPR webinar) | |
| 2018 | The Sensory Science Group conference explores why Health is Wealth! (IFST) |
| A taste of culture – 7th European Sensory Science Society’s General Assembly and Symposium (IFST – with Lauren Rogers) | |
| Sensory Science Group – To p-value or not? That is the question! (IFST) | |
| 2014 | Instrumental assessment of food sensory quality: A practical guide (in Food Science & Technology) |
| 2013 | Quality in Market Research: From Theory to Practice (in IJMR) |
Thought pieces:
| 2020 | Pasta in the time of Coronavirus (Carol Raithatha Limited) |
| 2019 | Can intelligent writing be artificial? (Carol Raithatha Limited) |
Media interviews:
| 2018 | Marmite sprouts? Why retailers are pushing the boundaries with festive food (BBC) |
| 2017 | Unlocking the Science of Taste and the Art of Flavor (SeedWorld) |
| Best bacon for your buttie or fry-up (Which?) | |
| 2016 | Do you LOATHE brussels sprouts? It turns out it could all be down to your genes (in MailOnline) |
| 2012 | Get active! (Food in Canada) |