Food Texture and Viscosity: Concept and Measurement

Drawing together literature from a variety of fields, Food Texture and Viscosity, Second Edition, includes a brief history of this area and its basic principles. It reviews how texture and viscosity are measured, including the physical interactions between the human body and food, objective methods of texture measurements, the latest advances in texture-measuring instruments, various types of liquid flow, and more.

This revised edition contains approximately 30% new material, including two new chapters on physics and texture and the correlation between physical measurements and sensory assessments. It now includes two-color illustrations and includes a current list of equipment suppliers.

Completely revised with approximately 30% new materialIncludes two new chapters on physics and texture and the correlation between physical measurements and sensory assessmentsProvides a list of suppliers of texture-measuring equipmentFeatures two-color illustrations and text throughoutWritten by an award-winning author

1. Texture, Viscosity and Food 2. Texture-Body Interactions 3. Physics and Texture 4. Principles of Objective Texture Measurement 5. Practise of Objective Texture Measurement 6. Viscosity Measurement 7. Sensory Methods of Texture and Viscosity Measurement 8. Correlation Between Physical Measurements and Sensory Assessments of Texture and Viscosity 9. Selection of a Suitable Test Procedure

Appendix I - Suppliers of Texture and Viscosity Measuring Instruments II - Effect of Temperature on Texture Measurements III - Conditions of Testing Foods using the TA.XT2 Texture Analyser