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How to measure and analyse the texture of food, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals and adhesives.

Tuesday 20 November 2018

Fruit Texture: How to measure the firmness of whole fruit by compression

Lady eating appleFruit can alternatively undergo a mild non-destructive test where the deformation response of a large cylinder probe or platen is measured to effectively mimic the compression between one’s fingers.

However this has the problem of measurement variability due to differing contact area with the fruit surface which varies because of irregularities in fruit shape and size and results may then be compromised for the convenience of using such a test.