Leading the Way in Texture, Firmness, and Color Measurement
Texture analyzers are essential tools in the food industry to ensure the quality of fruits and vegetables. By measuring parameters such as firmness, elasticity, and resistance to compression, these devices provide crucial information about the ripeness, quality, and texture of products. Texture is a key factor in consumer satisfaction, as it influences both the tasting experience and the shelf life of the product.
Texture analyzers are not only used to test the quality of fruits but also play a vital role in scientific research and genetic breeding programs. By providing accurate data, these tools help improve the consistency and quality of fruit varieties.
OzBlu : Ensuring Quality with the AGROSTA® Winterwood
OzBlu, a major player in blueberry production, uses the AGROSTA® Winterwood to measure the firmness of their fruits. This firmness tester, adhering to the Durofel standard, is ideal for fruits with smooth, delicate skins, such as blueberries. Thanks to this device, OzBlu can sort their fruits based on texture, ensuring a consistent experience for the consumer.
Using the AGROSTA® Winterwood allows OzBlu to ensure that every batch of blueberries has the ideal firmness, eliminating any unpleasant texture variations within the same container. This attention to detail is one of the reasons why some of their blueberries won the prestigious Superior Taste Awards. By offering exceptional quality fruits, OzBlu meets the expectations of even the most demanding consumers.
Oregon Blueberry: Enhancing Genetic Crossbreeding with Texture Analysis
Oregon Blueberry uses our texture analyzers to optimize its blueberry genetic breeding programs. With the AGROSTA® Winterwood, they measure the firmness of different blueberry cultivars, allowing them to select the best texture characteristics for their crossbreeds. The data obtained helps create more resilient, tastier, and better-adapted blueberry varieties to specific growing conditions.
Texture analysis plays a key role in the continuous improvement of fruit varieties, ensuring higher-quality products better suited to market needs.
Tomato Solutions: Ensuring Hybrid Tomato Quality
Tomato Solutions, a company specializing in the breeding, production, and marketing of hybrid tomato seeds, uses the AGROSTA® 100 Field to measure the firmness of their tomatoes. This advanced firmness tester, with a 2.4″ color touchscreen and customizable measurements, is designed to provide optimal precision when testing the firmness of a variety of fruits, including tomatoes.
With the AGROSTA® 100 Field, Tomato Solutions ensures that their tomatoes meet the ideal texture standards for both processing and fresh markets. This device plays an essential role in selecting the varieties to cross, ensuring firm, uniform, and superior quality tomatoes.
The AGROSTA® Rose: Versatility for All Types of Produce
Launched in 2023, the AGROSTA® Rose is a revolutionary fruit and vegetable texture analyzer. Designed to perform both penetrometry tests (for crunchy fruits and vegetables) and deflection measurements (for softer produce), this device is an essential tool for post-harvest laboratories. It can analyze almost any type of fruit or vegetable, especially for non-destructive testing on a large scale, including fruits like avocados, cherries, tomatoes, blueberries, raspberries, and citrus fruits.
The AGROSTA® Rose stands out due to its versatility, being able to test firmer fruits like apples, pears, and carrots through penetrometry, as well as softer produce with deflection measurement. Equipped with a 2.4″ color touchscreen and customizable measurements, it is the perfect tool for rapid and reliable texture analysis of fruits on a large scale.
Conclusion: The Future of Fruit Quality Testing
Texture analyzers, such as the AGROSTA® Winterwood, AGROSTA® 100 Field, and AGROSTA® Rose, are revolutionizing the way the food industry ensures the quality of fruits. Whether for scientific research, enhancing genetic breeding programs, or post-harvest control, these tools provide precise data that help produce tastier, more resilient, and more uniform fruits.
At Agrosta, we take pride in offering high-tech solutions to help businesses optimize the quality of their products. With our texture analyzers, companies like BerryWorld, Ocean Spray, Oregon Blueberry, and Tomato Solutions can maintain the highest standards of quality and innovation in their respective sectors.