Do you need to measure lettuce crispness? Or strawberry firmness?

The fruit and vegetable industry relies on us for the best texture analysis products and support in the industry.

Texture Technologies has served 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 such as diced fruit.

We support hundreds of university users in North America and many hundreds more internationally that test fruit and vegetable products. Our texture analysis instruments are popular among university food science departments because of their flexibility and ease-of-use. The inventory of research papers on fruits and vegetables that employed the TA.XTPlus, TA.HDPlus, and TA.XTExpress Texture Analyzers is unparalleled. Our test methods, software, applications support, and fixtures set us apart from any competition.

Use the TA.XTPlus Texture Analyzer for testing your fruits and vegetables because of the deep knowledge you will gain about your products.

Most critical textural analysis parameters can be easily quantified with the TA.XTPlus Texture Analyzers and Exponent program 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.

Among our commercial clients in the fruit and vegetable industry are: Agrana Fruit, Basic American Foods, Bush Brothers, Campbell Soup Company, Chiquita, Del Monte, Diana Fruit, Dole Food Company, Driscolls, Graceland, Jasper Wyman & Son, Kroger Company, Ocean Spray Cranberries, Planters, RiceTec, Sara Lee Bakery, Seminis, J.M. Smucker Company, Sunkist, SunOpta and Wm Bolthouse.

Among our university and research clients in the fruit and vegetable industry are: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Cornell University, Florida State University, Florida A&M University, Montana State University, University of Arkansas, University of California, Davis (9 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), the USDA ARS Fruit Research Center (Kearneysville, WV), USDA ARS Citrus and Subtropical Products Laboratory (Winter Haven, FL), and the USDA ARS Beltsville Agricultural Research Center (Beltsville, MD).

"The Plus is pretty easy to use with highly repeatable results. The software's and TTC's support are so helpful that we can analyze the texture of any product. It is so easy to learn that I can teach anyone how to get familiar with it and how to use it in five minutes."

Dr. Ali R. Taherian, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, St. Hyacinthe, Quebec

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Do you need to measure lettuce crispness? Or strawberry firmness?

The fruit and vegetable industry relies on us for the best texture analysis products and support in the industry.

Use the TA.XTPlus Texture Analyzer for testing your fruits and vegetables because of the deep knowledge you will gain about your products.

"The Plus is pretty easy to use with highly repeatable results. The software's and TTC's support are so helpful that we can analyze the texture of any product. It is so easy to learn that I can teach anyone how to get familiar with it and how to use it in five minutes."

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