How Texture Analysis is Helping Save Our Planet

The below passage is an excerpt of an article authored by Stable Micro Systems (SMS). To request the complete article, visit SMS’ website.

In a world that has woken up to the reality of climate change and other environmental matters, a large amount of research goes into developing eco-friendlier approaches to everyday objects and processes.

Texture analysis plays an important role in ensuring standards are maintained in areas such as material mechanical properties and food texture.

We have all heard the saying “One man’s waste is another man’s treasure.” With today’s environmental issues, how incredible would it be if we could convert the waste material produced by the manufacture of one material in order to use it as an ingredient in another? What is useless to one company/product is potentially valuable to another.

Of course, the challenge is to replace ordinary ingredients with repurposed materials without the consumer noticing textural differences. This is where texture analysis is the perfect tool to assess the effect of any textural change in the reformulation.

A texture analyzer is a crucial part of this procedure, giving a reliable way to test the mechanical (and sensorial) properties of products by applying a choice of compression, tension, extrusion, adhesion, bending or cutting tests to measure a product’s physical properties, e.g. tensile strength, puncture strength, fracturability and compressibility, to name but a few.

Request the article to read more about those who are using texture analysis as a tool to measure the results of their product developments, or contact your TTC rep to learn more.

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