Q. Show Texture in Foods?
According to Matz (1962), texture can be defined as the mingled experience derived from the sensation of skin in the mouth after ingestion of food or beverage. What we sense as texture in foods, derives from the physical characteristics of these materials. We generally concern ourselves with hardness of tough meat, softness of tender jellies, chewiness of steak, thickness of sauces, elasticity of bread, sticky surface of caramel, roughness of salt crystals etc. to realize how many characteristics provide textural stimuli in foods. In other words, texture is a composite property involving many physical properties in a complex relationship or in a more general way, texture can be defined as a way in which various constituents and structural components are arranged and combined into a micro and macro structure and the external manifestation of the Structure in terms of flow. The formation texture influences:
(1) Consumer acceptability,
(2) Type of packaging, and
(3) Processing method (Power required).