Month: July 2023

METHODS FOR POULTRY AND EGG TEXTURE MEASUREMENT MORS Knife Blade: Uncooked Poultry Breast Woody breast is a challenge currently at the forefront of poultry research. It is a defect in the Pectoralis major muscle in broiler birds, characterised by an abnormal hardness usually detected by palpitation and visual methods. Meat from birds affected by woody […]

Warner-Bratzler: Cored Cooked Chicken Meat Samples Coring is a frequently-used method for creating a meat sample with consistent dimensions. The Warner-Bratzler Blade is well-suited to testing these samples, or any samples with a constant circular crosssection, including sausages. It is the most common biting or shearing system for the assessment of meat and meat products. […]

Three-Point Bend Test: Chicken Bones In poultry, musculoskeletal disorders are a major negative outcome of poor nutrition. The food given to a chicken directly affects its bones, muscles and tendons; foods such as rye can cause bone strength to deteriorate. Young chickens used in meat production suffer a large proportion of these problems as good […]

Crunchiness: Incisor Blade or Multiple Puncture Probe Batter produces a crisp, golden, flavourful crust. The primary factor in sensory acceptance of batter is crispness, a property manifested as a tendency to yield suddenly with a characteristic sound when subjected to an applied force. Consequently, when crisp products such as battered chicken are tested using a […]

Egg Testing Providing high quality eggs and egg products is crucial to the sustainable economic viability of the egg industry. Surveys conducted in the EU indicated that shell strength, albumen quality (consistency and height) and intensity of yolk pigment are the main measures of quality important to consumers. Guaranteeing quality is essential to meeting consumer […]

Hair Testing using a Texture Analyser and Volscan Profiler Haircare products make up an enormous part of the beauty industry. Consisting of thousands of products, such as shampoos, conditioners, sprays, gels and colourants, the global haircare market is predicted to rise to 105 billion dollars by 2025, according to Statista. Most consumers are looking to improve the health […]

Measurements using Texture Analysis Hair Combability Consumers often desire fullness of hair which is associated with hair volume. One of the mechanisms by which hair volume is achieved is by increasing hair fibre-to-fibre friction. However, if this friction is too high, combability may be negatively affected. It is well known that conditioning shampoos and hair […]

Hair Mono Filament Testing Tensile testing is the simplest method for measuring the strength of a hair fibre. Hair strength correlates with the amount of damage that it has undergone, whether from UV, bleach or mechanical treatments. If the diameter of the hair is accurately measured using a micrometer, fundamental measurements of breaking stress, breaking […]