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

Tuesday 13 December 2016

Substituting your Meat at mealtimes: Part 5: Chicken tenderness – texture comparison

Kramer Shear Cell test - chicken piecesChicken Tenderness: Multiple Shearing

Empirical methods of assessing texture are often challenged by lack of homogeneity or uniformity in samples. 

Heterogeneous systems, such as unprocessed meat products can have structural elements that can vary considerably for the same overall chemical composition. Sometimes the sample to be analysed may be of variable configuration or structure from piece to piece such as for chicken strips.