- Major activities: Research, Education and Training
Contact:
Dr. Claire Sulmont-Rossé,
UMR FLAVIC - INRA,
17 rue Sully, BP 86 510, 21 065 Dijon Cedex
France
(33)–380-69-32-71
Claire.Sulmont@dijon.inra.fr
INRA, The National Research Institute for Agriculture Research is a public institute administered by the ministries of Agriculture and Research. Formed in 1946, the Institute now employs a staff of 8690, including 4120 researchers. INRA is organised into 14 departments at 21 centres, and has an annual budget of nearly 600 million Euro.
INRA covers all aspects of agricultural, food and environmental research concentrating on 5 major areas:
- Mangement of the environment
- Safe and healthy diet
- From the genome to the whole organism
- High-throughput computing
- Aid to decision making in the public and in private sectors social science
Sensory and consumer research is conducted mainly in the Department of Human Nutrition and in the Department of Characterisation and Elaboration of Agricultural Products. Its research is an essential component of INRA’s theme of improving human food quality, safety and nutrition through the understanding of the nutritional needs and consumer expectations, and refining new products and nutritional practices.
The research unit Flavor, Vision and Consumer Behaviour (FLAVIC-INRA-ENESAD) of the Dijon center specialises in factors which influenced food sensory quality and acceptability. In particular, our research aims at characterising the variability of consumers’ hedonic responses and food choices, and understanding this variability by identifying the factors that determine consumers’ preference and behaviour. We study the impact of food factors (sensory properties and extrinsic characteristics such as brand, packaging information, price) and consumer factors (sensory thresholds, sensory memory, psychological factors).
Please check our website for further information:
http://www.inra.fr/
http://www.dijon.inra.fr/flavic/
