On the assessment of fracture in brittle foods II. Biting or chewing?
In this study crispness assessment in different dry-crisp foods were evaluated. Roasted almonds with different degrees of roasting and two different types of extruded snacks, wheat crusts and cheese balls, at different water activities were used as samples. Crispness behaviour was characterised by using coupled sound-texture measurements and by sensory evaluation with the use of a consumer panel. Instrumental texture measurements were made using compression and penetration tests. While in the almond samples the compression test discriminated better than the penetration test among the samples, in both kinds of snacks the compression with the tooth-like probe proved to be as good as penetration tests to assess crispy characteristics. Consumers evaluated the samples by chewing with the back molars or by biting with the incisive teeth. The results obtained in sensory evaluation were similar to instrumental results. Consumers were able to better discriminate between the almond samples by chewing than by biting but in the snacks samples the ratings both by biting and chewing modalities were very similar and showing the same discrimination level. These findings could have useful applications: for panel training, at the time of naming attributes and defining how they are evaluated; also, to obtain the most of sensory-consumer correlations, having in mind that the "ease of breakdown" in the mouth is proved to contribute to the relative preferences among narrow texture ranges within products.
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| Format: | artículo biblioteca |
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Elsevier BV
2009-12
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| Subjects: | Texture, Sensory, Crispness, Biting, Chewing, |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/333827 |
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