What are the importance of statistics in food technology?

Answer 1

There are many. Here is one example. Say we want to know which method is best for keeping citrus fresh. Temp of 35 degrees, applying ascorbic acid, mystery method 3 which is a new and never tested preservative.

We look at 100 plates of citrus in each category and rate it for freshness.

Statistics will let us generalize this data and tell us how likely it is that our results are valid.