Candy Corn Tested Three Ways


Industry:

Food

Confectionery

Attributes measured:

brittleness

firmness

stiffness

hardness

toughness

stickiness

Background

Candy Corn is closely associated with Fall and Halloween. Wide varieties of brands and flavor formulations are released at the beginning of each season. This application study reviews three techniques to measure differences in the textural characteristics of six varieties of candy corn with Stable Micro Systems’ TA.XTPlus Texture Analyzer and Exponent software.