Article: Consistent consistency with texture analysis.(Focus on Cheese)

The ability to accurately measure sensory qualities that assure dairy products' appeal to consumers and secure brand loyalty is becoming increasingly important in the competitive dairy case.

And as the number of prepared foods using cheese as an ingredient continues to grow, cheese manufacturers must be able to guarantee ingredient cheese with consistent functional properties such as meltability (softening and flowing), shredability/slice-ability and freezing/thawing characteristics. Without doubt, an accurate, consistent, objective measurement of texture is very important to the dairy industry.

Traditionally, trained sensory panels were used to evaluate ...

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