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Design and Development of a Low Cost Prototype Food Penetrometer to Evaluate Quality of Foods

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dc.contributor.author Abeysuriya, A.P.H.I.
dc.contributor.author Navaratne, S.B.
dc.contributor.author Alwis, P.L.A.G.
dc.date.accessioned 2017-02-23T04:35:05Z
dc.date.available 2017-02-23T04:35:05Z
dc.date.issued 2015-06
dc.identifier.citation Abeysuriya, A.P.H.I., Navaratne, S.B., & Alwis, P.L.A.G. (2015). Design and Development of a Low Cost Prototype Food Penetrometer to Evaluate Quality of Foods. International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research, 6(6), 1531-1535. en_US, si_LK
dc.identifier.issn 2229-5518
dc.identifier.uri http://dr.lib.sjp.ac.lk/handle/123456789/4057
dc.description.abstract This study was undertaken to design and develop a low cost food penetrometer to measure quality of solid, semi-solid and liquid foods. This equipment specifically has designed to measure the force required for the penetrant to travel a constant distance into food sample. Two types of penetrants were tested with the developed equipment. A penetrant fabricated with aluminum and which is a half hallow cone with 90° of internal angle was used for liquid and semi-solid foods. A penetrant fabricated with nylon and which is a solid cone with an 'internal angle of 200 was used for solid foods. The developed food penetrometer was tested with different types of food samples including bread, yoghurt and a sugar solution. Reading of the fabricated food penetrometer for fresh bread was 0.1755N and readings were increased during the storage period. Food penetrometer readings for fresh yoghurt and spoiled yoghurt were 0.1704N and 0.1242N respectively. In sugar solution samples, readings from fabricated food penetrometer were gradually decreased during fermentation. en_US, si_LK
dc.language.iso en en_US, si_LK
dc.publisher IJSER en_US, si_LK
dc.subject Food rheology en_US, si_LK
dc.subject Food texture en_US, si_LK
dc.subject Low cost food penetrometer en_US, si_LK
dc.subject Penetrant en_US, si_LK
dc.subject Prototype food penetrometer en_US, si_LK
dc.subject Quality of foods en_US, si_LK
dc.subject Texture measurement en_US, si_LK
dc.title Design and Development of a Low Cost Prototype Food Penetrometer to Evaluate Quality of Foods en_US, si_LK
dc.type Article en_US, si_LK


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