Slices of dry-cured hams (Biceps femoris muscle) were stored during 8 weeks under vacuum and modified atmospheres (100% N(2) and a mixture of 20% CO(2) and 80% N(2)) in order to study the modifications on colour, texture and microbial counts during that period. Lightness was found to be more stable when samples were stored with 20% CO(2) and 80% N(2) without statistical differences between vacu...

The panna cotta is one of the Italian desserts served cold. row materials for this dessert are cream and milk that cooked with other ingredients such as sugar gelatine. characteristics resemble pudding, but gel nature softer can melt in mouth when eaten. This study was purposed to determine quality after use konjac flour (Amorphophallus konjac) substitution research conducted using a non factor...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to assess the level of patients' satisfaction with appearance of maxillary anterior teeth restorations and to determine if there is a significant difference in patients' assessment of restoration appearance with regard to gender. MATERIALS AND METHODS Two hundred subjects evaluated the colour, anatomical shape and surface texture of maxillary anterior teeth...

In this paper, we present a tracking technique utilizing a simple saliency visual descriptor. Initially, we define a visual descriptor named local similarity pattern that mimics the famous texture operator local binary patterns. The key difference is that it assigns each pixel a code based on the similarity to the neighbouring pixels. Later, we simplify this descriptor to ...

Fruit quality of five scab resistant apple cultivars (Enterprise, Liberty, Nova Easygro, Sir Prize and Rewena) suitable for organic growing systems were tested. External and internal fruit quality was assessed through standard parameters (fruit weight, firmness, soluble solids, malic acid) and sensorial quality by panel tests (fruit size, shape and colour; hardness, texture, juiciness, sweet/ac...

A study was conducted to evaluate the quality of the leather from five different cultivars (Red Fleshed, Allahabad Safeda, Lucknow-49, Chittidar, Apple Colour of guava. Leather quality was also observed using three different recipes for its preparation. The study revealed that organoleptic quality (i.e. colour, flavour, taste, texture and overall acceptability) of leather decreased gradually wi...

changes in proximate composition, colour and textural characteristics of ozone-processed shrimp as affected by combined effects of increasing ozone exposures and iced storage were investigated and for the first time. whilst proximate composition comprised of fat, moisture, and protein contents and colour comprised of l*, a*, b* and metric chroma (c), the texture comprised of adhesiveness, fract...