Exclusive Distributor of Stable Micro System's Texture Analyzers in North America
Fruits + Vegetables
Food texture analysis instruments for measuring the properties of fruit and vegetables and setting quality standards.
Texture Analyzers and analytical instrumentation for testing and measuring the textural and physical characteristics of fruits and vegetables.
TA-91: Kramer Shear Press with 5 blades, with auto-alignment quick release.
Texture Technologies has served dozens of major companies as well as government and university clients in the fruit and vegetable industry since 1989. In the process, we have developed many custom fixtures designed for testing products with the inconsistent geometry challenges of testing products like diced fruit. Many of our clients have established fruit and vegetable firmness standards for their raw or processed suppliers. Those suppliers benefit from 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 disputes about product quality.
Among our many clients in the fruit and vegetable industry are the following: Basic American Foods, Bush Brothers, Campbell Soup Company , Chiquita Brands , Cornell University, Del Monte, 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 (7 units), USDA ARS Rice Research Center, USDA ARS-WRRC, Albany, CA, USDA Southern Research Center, New Orleans, LA, USDA South Central ARS, Lane, OK, USDA ARS Rice Research Center, Beaumont, TX, USDA Tree Fruit Research Center,Wenatchee, WA, and the USDA ARS Fruit Research Center, Kearneysville, WV, USDA ARS Citrus and Subtropical Products Laboratory Winter Haven, FL, USDA ARS Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Beltsville, MD, Welch’s
Many of our customers have relationships with their international supplier where both companies use our instruments for assurance of comparable data & test methods. A few customers even have travel cases so that they bring their TA.XT2 or TA.XTPlus instruments with them as they qualify new and existing worldwide suppliers for tight product quality specifications.
Texture Technologies and Stable Micro Systems boast hundreds of university users in North America and many hundred more internationally that also test fruit and vegetable products. Our texture analysis instruments are popular among university food science departments because they are extremely flexible and very easy to use. The inventory of research papers on fruits and vegetables, employing the TA.XTPlus, TA.HDPlus, and TA.XTExpress Texture Analyzers, is unparalleled. The things that set us apart are the test methods we have already developed, the software and applications support we provide, and the necessary the fixtures we’ve created for most product applications.
Most textural analysis parameters can be easily quantified with the TA.XT Texture Analyzers and Exponent software programs and some attributes can only be measured with our instruments. Some of the many parameters that our product testing equipment can analyze include ripeness, flesh firmness, rupture force, consistency, skin crispness and other properties.