Similarity Evaluation on the Compound TCM Formulation “Huoling Shengji Granule” and Its Placebo by Intelligent Sensory Evaluation Technologies and the Human Sensory Evaluation Method Based on Critical Quality Attributes

Table 7

Human sensory evaluation similarity results between HLG and the placebo.

Indexes	HLG	Placebo	Cosine
Appearance	3.67 ± 0.26	3.25 ± 0.27	0.9998	0.175
Color	3.75 ± 0.27	3.42 ± 0.38	0.9992	0.175
Clarity	3.42 ± 0.38	3.50 ± 0.32	0.9835	0.594
Smell	3.67 ± 0.26	2.58 ± 0.74	0.9998	0.001
Taste	3.67 ± 0.26	2.87 ± 0.54	0.9798	0.003
Similarity (cosine)	0.9827

Data represent means ± standard deviation (n ＝ 6 for sensor scores).