Scientific and Digital Systems

R. K. Puram, Delhi

Manufactured by Perten Instruments AB, Sweden, Inframatic is a Near Infrared (NIR) instrument designed for determination of moisture, protein, oil, starch, fiber, ash, hardness, specific weight and much more in less than a minute. Its accuracy and speed make it ideal for use at all grain receivals/elevators, grain trading operations, flour mills, malting and other oilseed processing facilities. Inframatic models have official approvals from international associations like AACC, OIML RI etc.

All NIR instruments being secondary analysis equipments need calibrations for working on them. Inframatic comes with inbuilt calibrations according to the user requirements and later on new calibrations can also be developed and added in the existing calibration list of the instrument.

food texture analyser is used for sensory evaluations like freshness, spreadability, tenderness, springiness, gumminess, hardness, firmness, consistency, fracturability etc of variety of food products viz: bread, biscuits, jams, jellies, vegetables, fruits, chocolate, rice, cereals, dough and diary products.

sms food texture analysers also measure the extensibility of dough using kieffer dough extensibility fixture. The quantity of sample required for testing does not exceed 10-15g and the instrument provides direct comparison of dough and gluten extensibility thus obviating the need for an extensograph.

stable micro systems texture analysers also measure dough extensional rheology under conditions of strain similar to those of baking expansion and enables the rheological properties of both dough and gluten to be measured during biaxial stretching. This obviates the need of an alveograph.

when a crisp food is broken or crushed, characteristic sounds are produced due to brittle fracture of the cell walls and the resultant acoustic emissions in the audible frequency range of 3 12khz are used to quantify sensory crispness. Now for the first time, acoustic emission recording and analysis has been done using sms texture analyser by integrating the data into texture exponent software, a recognized texture analysis software package from stable micro systems. This facilitates the collection of acoustic data as an integral part of the test alongside force, distance and time data to provide the 4th dimension in texture analysis.

stable micro systems texture analysers also measure powder flow characteristics. Almost any sample capable of flow can be tested. Controlled flow offers the ability to test in a manner that is complementary to your process or need. One may simply determine particle cohesion after compaction, flow after compaction, resistance to compression, batch and source variation, resistance to flow.