Texture Profile Analyzer (TPA)

Texture Profile Analyzer (TPA)  is a  double compression test  procedure for measuring the textural characteristics of food materials. It is also used in other parts of  industries, like gels, pharmaceuticals, , and personal care.

Throughout a TPA tests, a texture analyzer ( mainly tensile/compression tester)  compress the samples twice to provide insight into how samples behave when consumer chew them. The TPA test was also  called the “two bite test” for the reason that,  the texture analyzer test machine simulate the mouth’s biting activity.

The textural identity of any food is rarely a simple matter of understanding a singular attribute such as hardness or cohesiveness.

The beauty of TPA as an analytical method is that it can quantify multiple textural parameters in just one experiment. .

TPA parameters have evolved since the test’s creation.