The TA.XT2i is also used by dozens of major companies in the fruit & vegetable industry (commercial, government & university) throughout the USA, Canada, Mexico, Europe and Asia. Texture Technologies has been involved with fruit & vegetable clients since 1989, with many custom fixtures designed for testing products with the inconsistent geometry challenges of testing products like diced fruit.
Our texture analysers are used throughout food companies' manufacturing facilities, their research & development facilities, and in academic settings worldwide. Many of our clients have established fruit and vegetable firmness standards for their raw or processed suppliers. Those suppliers benefit by having known objective texture standards that can be tested with the same instrumentation between vendor and purchaser, and the operating relationships improve between companies since they no longer have subjective fights about product quality.
Among TTC's many clients in the fruit & vegetable industry Basic American Foods, Bush Brothers, Campbell Soup Company , Chiquita Brands , Cornell University, Dole Food Company, Jasper Wyman & Son, Kroger Company, Montana State University, Planters, RiceTec, Sara Lee Bakery, J.M. Smucker Company, University of Arkansas, University of California, Davis (4 units), U.S.D.A. ARS Rice Research Center, U.S.D.A. ARS-WRRC, Albany, CA, U.S.D.A. Southern Research Center, New Orleans, LA, U.S.D.A. South Central ARS, Lane, OK, U.S.D.A. ARS Rice Research Center, Beaumont,TX, U.S.D.A. Tree Fruit Research Center-Wenatchee, WA, U.S.D.A. ARS Fruit Research Center, Kearneysville, WV.
We have hundreds of university users in North America and many hundred more internationall that also test fruit & vegetable products. Our instruments are popular among university food science departments because it is extremely flexible and very easy to use. Graduate students, undergraduate students and even faculty find it very easy to use. Our inventory of research papers conducted on fruits and vegetables worldwide is unparralleled because the instrument is easy to use, the test methods with the instrument have already been developed, the software and applications support is available from TTC and SMS, and we already developed the necessary the fixtures for most product applications.