Abstract：Acceptance of boar meat by 120 Chinese females depending on their age, education level, and sensitivity to androstenone and skatole was evaluated by smelling the pure compound and testing cooked pork samples. Pork samples were classified as ‘barrow meat’, ‘LL boar meat’ (boar meat with low levels of androstenone and skatole) and ‘LH boar meat’ (boar meat with high levels of androstenone and skatole). Results showed that 60.9% of the consumers were highly sensitive to skatole and 18.2% were highly sensitive to androstenone. As sensitivity to androstenone increased, consumer acceptability of pure androstenone odor significantly reduced (χ2 = 22.41, P < 0.001). In addition, 47.8% of the consumers were fond/neutral of pure skatole odor, and 15.0% disliked pure androstenone odor. Consumers’ acceptability of the odor (χ2 = 3.75, P < 0.05) and taste of LH meat was higher than that of LL meat. Consumers who are highly sensitive to androstenone and like its odor gave higher score to boar meat than barrow meat. Chinese women can accept entire male pork, and this is the first survey on consumer acceptability of entire male pork in China, which is of great significance to evaluate the possibility of using entire male pig for pork production.
