Application Note: Cheese, Port Salut Type

Develop quality control test method for detection of critical physical characteristics between production batches.

Texture Profile Analysis principles were applied to carefully prepared samples taken from each block of cheese supplied. Each sample was compressed twice enabling determination of key properties by comparing the load profiles of both peaks.

In semi-solid materials such as cheese hardness, springiness and cohesiveness (as defined below) are important to sensory perception by the consumer.