Research Article

Assessing Sensory Characteristics and Consumer Preference of Legume-Cereal-Root Based Porridges in Nandi County

Table 4

Correlation of most liked porridge attributes with most acceptable porridge.

Flour typeSensory attributes
ColorSmellTasteTextureViscosity

Kiptaruswo children porridge0.414 (0.001)0.730 (0.001)0.560 (0.000)0.502 (0.000)0.440 (0.000)
Kapkerer children porridge0.498 (0.001)0.419 (0.007)0.571 (0.000)0.681 (0.000)0.245 (0.128)
Kiptaruswo family porridge0.775 (0.000)0.851 (0.000)0.702 (0.000)0.342 (0.102)0.598 (0.002)
Kapkerer family porridge0.031 (0.897)0.413 (0.071)0.508 (0.022)0.203 (0.391)0.235 (0.319)

The values in bracket are the values. Those which were significantly different at () and () are indicated with asterisk () and () respectively.