Measuring the springiness of a gummy candy? The "snap" of a chocolate bar? Or the perfect "crispiness" for a tortilla chip?

The confectionery and snack industries rely on us for the best texture analysis products and support in the industry.

No matter the testing challenge, our wide range of testing methods can precisely quantify the textural characteristics your team designs into your products. If your application requires a custom probe or fixture we will build it for you in our service center's machine shop. Unparalleled professional support. Our professionally trained team offers our customers extensive applications help. We have dozens and dozens of test methods ready to be deployed for testing your confectionery ingredients, gels, interim stage products, final confectionery products and even confectionery packaging.

Some of the many parameters that only our product equipment can analyze include springiness, firmness, flexibility, crispness, crunchiness, stickiness, snapping force, break strength, coating stiffness and other properties relevant to the confectionery and snack industries.

Confectionery products have subtle textures and must be measured with precise and accurate instruments. Crispy & Crunchy snacks require powerful instruments and software capable of analyzing highly irregular force plots.

Confectionery products often have very subtle differences in firmness, softness, adhesiveness, chewiness and resilience. Consumers' very precise expectations need to be matched for repeat sales. Our instruments are used by the confectionery industry to measure and deliver on those expectations.

Crispness, brittleness, and crunchiness are highly appreciated and differentiated textural attributes by consumers. These behaviors can all be highly impacted by formula, time, temperature, moisture, and packaging. SMS' TA.XTPlus Texture Analyzer with the Exponent program shines in picking up these textural attributes!

The snacks experience for consumers is all about the crunch. Our instruments, test methods, and technical support are designed to help you attain excellent correlations with your sensory panels and your consumers. Our powerful instruments and software simplify this complex analysis and measure crispy & crunchy attributes in ways that correlate very well with sensory judgements.

"It's a fantastic instrument, I'll tell you that. I have been extremely pleased with it. We now have a way of quantifying data that before was just a guess. Pictures are worth much more than words and TA.XT measurements as clear as night and day."

Richard B. Batté, Director of Laboratory and Research Services, Krispy Kreme Doughnut Corporation

Confectionery & Snacks

Measuring the springiness of a gummy candy? The "snap" of a chocolate bar? Or the perfect "crispiness" for a tortilla chip?

The confectionery and snack industries rely on us for the best texture analysis products and support in the industry.

Confectionery products have subtle textures and must be measured with precise and accurate instruments. Crispy & Crunchy snacks require powerful instruments and software capable of analyzing highly irregular force plots.

"It's a fantastic instrument, I'll tell you that. I have been extremely pleased with it. We now have a way of quantifying data that before was just a guess. Pictures are worth much more than words and TA.XT measurements as clear as night and day."

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