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OBSERVATIONS ON TEXTURE MEASUREMENT OF RAW CUCUMBERS WITH THE FRUIT PRESSURE TESTER *
Author(s) -
BREENE WILLIAM M.,
JEON I. J.,
BERNARD STUART N.
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
journal of texture studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.593
H-Index - 54
eISSN - 1745-4603
pISSN - 0022-4901
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-4603.1974.tb01438.x
Subject(s) - flesh , cultivar , horticulture , texture (cosmology) , mathematics , raw material , materials science , botany , biology , computer science , artificial intelligence , ecology , image (mathematics)
Raw fruit of a ‘firm’ (Explorer) and a ‘soft’ (Green F) cucumber cultivar were puncture tested with the Magness‐Taylor fruit pressure tester (FPT) manually, and also with the FPT or only FPT tip mounted in the Instron. Puncture‐values for flesh only were 70–75 % of those for intact fruit. Neither the cucumber size (1–2.5 in. diam) nor the test speed (5–50 cm min ‐1 ) appreciably affected the puncture test values.