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Rice cereal

Rice & Cereal

Rice, wheat, and cereal grain products feed billions of people around the globe.

Our instruments help test the physical characteristics of innumerable product varieties, satisfying appetites across the globe!

We have worked with companies, universities and government research institutions for over 25 years to develop test methods and fixtures for quantifying rice, cereal, and grain products. Across the world thousands of consumers are alert to even subtle behavioral changes in the texture of their favorite rice cultivars. In order to correlate with sensory results it is critical that even small differences can be picked up by our texture analyzers and test methods.

We are extremely grateful that that researchers worldwide conduct their tests using the Stable Micro Systems family of Texture Analyzers. Our instruments have even been used in the development of several enriched rice varieties that have been important advances for world health.

Our TA.XTPlus quantifies textural attributes of rice and cereal products. The TA.XTPlus bites...and compresses...and snaps...and chews....

Most textural analysis parameters can be easily quantified with the TA.XT Texture Analyzers and Exponent software. Some attributes can only be measured with our instruments. Among the many parameters that our texture analyzers can quantify include the hardness, brittleness, stickiness, adhesiveness, cohesiveness, crispness and consistency of rice, puffed rice, grain, wheat and other cereal products.

Your rice and cereal test methods must be flexible enough to accommodate highly varied customer preferences and cultural norms. Firmness is simple in concept but complicated in reality because of differences in product shape, cooking equipment, altitude, operator training, etc. Many products have nuanced textural attributes (firmness, adhesiveness-stickiness, resilience) that are amplified by cultural interpretations, often making sensory correlations poor. Our instrument, software and training will help optimize your testing methods.

Among the reasons our instruments are so heavily used is that they deliver very precise results using small sample sizes (critical for breeders around the world) and they are flexible enough to accommodate virtually every style of test the researchers and manufacturers need to accomplish. SMS' instruments can even conduct standard methods such as ISO 11747 Determination of rice kernel resistance to extrusion after cooking and AACCI Standard Method 56-36.01 Determination of firmness of cooked pulses.

"The instrument and systems are outstanding and you guys are great with responsive and helpful advice."

Leslie L. Skarra, President, Merlin Development Company

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