Table 5.

Hedonic acceptability of muffins by assessors (n = 180).

Hedonic Value	Number of Assessors Making Hedonic Choices
	Sucrose	Xylitol (0%)		Xylitol + 0.025% ChPE		Xylitol + 0.05% ChPE		Xylitol + 0.075% ChPE
	Fresh	Fresh	Stored 3 Weeks	Fresh	Stored 3 Weeks	Fresh	Stored 3 Weeks	Fresh	Stored 3 Weeks
Like extremely - 9	8	18	13	13	10	9	6	0	0
Like very much - 8	34	54	48	55	48	46	41	15	11
Like moderately - 7	48	50	42	58	53	57	63	26	19
Like a little - 6	40	28	20	24	29	31	24	30	25
Neither like or dislike - 5	22	16	25	15	18	18	20	36	33
Dislike a little - 4	16	10	17	10	13	12	16	44	50
Dislike moderately - 3	8	4	10	5	8	5	7	17	22
Dislike a lot - 2	4	0	3	0	1	2	3	10	14
Dislike extremely - 1	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	2	6
Mean acceptability	6.26 a	6.91 b	6.37 A,*	6.87 b	6.59 B,*	6.62 c	6.43 A,*	5.06 d	4.64 C,*
Range	2–9	3–9	1–9	3–9	2–9	2–9	2–9	1–8	1–8

Abbreviations: ^a,b,c,d - Values with different superscripts differ significantly (p < 0.05) from each other among fresh samples ^{A, B, C}- Values with different superscripts differ significantly (p < 0.05) from each other among storage samples. Values with asterisk differ significantly (p < 0.05) from the respective fresh group in row. ChPE - Chokeberry polyphenol extract.