Table 5.

Treatment palatability (mean ± SEM) from VAS assessment * in healthy adults (n = 18).

	Short Grain Rice	Dixiebelle	Rondo	p-Value
Visual	73 ± 3	68 ± 4	65 ± 5	0.1260
Smell	69 ± 3	64 ± 5	67 ± 5	0.5021
Taste	69 ± 3 A **	55 ± 5 B	59 ± 5 B	0.0421
Texture	75 ± 3 A	52 ± 6 B	56 ± 5 B	0.0023
Pleasantness	73 ± 3 A	65 ± 5 B	63 ± 4 B	0.0322

* Each characteristic was assessed as “bad” (0 mm) to “good” (100 mm); ** Within a row, cells with different superscript letters are significantly different (p < 0.05), Proc MIXED analysis of variance LSMean comparison between treatments.