Effect of brewing time and duration of listening to Mozart's symphony on emotions and sensory perception of Wonosari green tea

Abstract

Mind and body relaxation can be stimulated by consuming tea and enjoying music. While green tea contains L-theanin which stimulate relaxation, music in general may change moods and emotions. This current study aims to determine the effect of listening to Mozart's symphony number 6.K.43 at fundamental tone F music on emotion and sensory perception when consuming green tea. Three brewing durations (1, 3 and 5 minutes), 3 levels of listening time to the music (1, 3, and 5 minutes) with 4 different treatment techniques. There were 14 trained panellists involved in the study and they were asked to assess 15 sensory attributes including taste, flavour and mouth-feel of Wonosari green tea on Spectrum method. In general it can be concluded that the music mostly enhance the intensity of sensory attributes (p-value<0.05). It is also important to note that positive emotions improved when respondents listening to Mozart's regardless the duration of listening.