Analyzing The Texture of Sliced Bread

Every person in the world enjoys the sensation of biting into a slice of fresh bread. It’s not only the taste that is important, but perhaps equally so the texture. Your teeth know right away if the bread’s resistance to biting and chewing meets normal expectations. When baking bread, characteristics such as too soft, sponge-like, or too stale and hard are easily detected by the consumer. So how does the bakery know if the bread slice has the right texture? Do they have a group of experts in Quality Control who taste every loaf? No, that would be a very expensive approach to ensuring quality. The common practice today is to use a Texture Analyzer to evaluate loafs with a quick and simple compression test.