Month: October 2024

Pet Accessories: Ensuring High Quality

Pet owners always want the best for their animals and are willing to spend a lot of money buying brands that make pets more comfortable or give the owner an easier job while looking after them.  There are many quality control procedures that can be used to assess the quality of pet accessories. When buying a […]
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Physical Properties of Dry Pet Food

Dry pet food makes up a large share of the ever expanding pet care market, and manufacturers are keeping up with this trend by sinking more of their R&D budget into quality control and physical testing. For a manufacturer to turn a profit, safe products that pet owners want to buy must be made and sold […]
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Physical Properties of Wet Pet Food

There are obvious differences between the processes of quality control in the human and pet food industries, the main one being the lack of feedback from the pet sensory panel.  However, quick rejection of undesirable food provides enough motivation for pet owners and pet food manufacturers alike to provide animals with the correct food. Wet […]
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Perfecting the Texture of an Italian Meal

Italian food is well known for its beautiful splashes of colour from basil, tomatoes and saffron, and delivering fresh flavours. It is also very satisfying in terms of its texture; there is a wide range of textures ranging from delicately soft and creamy to crunchy, crispy and stretchy. A manufacturer of Italian food may perform […]
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A Chinese Meal with Texture Fit for an Emperor

Chinese food is very varied in terms of texture, colour and flavour, ranging from sweet and sticky dishes to crispy, chewy and very spicy, with golden noodles and vibrant sauces. Stable Micro Systems can provide a wide range of testing solutions for measuring the texture of every component of a Chinese meal. A spring roll […]
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Global Baking Ingredients Market to Grow – get ready to perfect your texture

According to MarketReportsWorld.com, analysts forecast the Global Baking Ingredients Market to Grow at 5.68% CAGR during the Period 2017-2021. With growth potential comes the need to secure the quality of your product to ensure that customers will continue to purchase your products over your competitors. If you don’t have any quantitative quality control in place […]
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An Indian Banquet with Perfect Texture

Indian food is rich, creamy and spicy, with comforting sauces and side dishes of interesting and varied texture. A consumer acts almost like a Texture Analyser while they are eating a meal. They are constantly sensing force and breaking points with their hands while they tear food and even more so inside their mouths while […]
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The Effect of Storage on Food Texture

The effect of storage on the textural properties of foodstuffs is very diverse and varies with the product type and storage conditions. Shelf-life studies are often used to test the emulsion stability of salad dressing and the staling properties of baked goods, as well as the integrity of packaging films, to cite a few examples. […]
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Texture Analysis in Action 2: The Asian Noodle Rig

Extensive work has been carried out at the Wheat Marketing Center in Oregon, USA, by Gary Hou and his team.  They use a particular type of perspex blade on their TA.XTplus Texture Analyser to measure noodle firmness; this has now become internationally popular and therefore has been included in the Stable Micro Systems probe and fixture […]
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