User-Friendly Texture Analyser Helps to Improve Confectionary Manufacturer’s Testing Capabilities

Tangerine UK, a leading UK independent manufacturer of sugar confectionery and branded popcorn, has invested in improvements to its testing capabilities with technology supplied by Spectronic Camspec.

The Pontefract-based company, which currently operates five UK factories and also has a strong presence in the international market, has chosen the TMS Pilot food texture analyser from Spectronic Camspec’s FTC line of food testing texture analysis instruments. After a month-long trial period the instrument is now being used to assist the production of many of the UK’s favourite sweets, including jelly babies for some of the UK’s leading food retailers. Designed for customers who desire an easy to operate, portable texture analyser, the TMS Pilot is suitable for a wide range of food sectors, from bakery and dairy to fruit, vegetables, meat and fish.

Nicola Hunt, technical manager at Tangerine UK, commented: “The TMS Pilot is a very user-friendly instrument and its excellent trending graph is a stand-out feature. Tangerine UK are undertaking a partnership programme with a school near to one of our factories in Cleckheaton, Howard Park Community School, who are also using the instrument for data gathering as part of their science curriculum. The TMS Pilot’s easy operation and portability makes it ideal for use as a shared resource in this context.”

Leeds-based Spectronic Camspec has become a leading name in specialist laboratory instrumentation and consumables for the food market. The company’s FTC analysers are the ‘gold standard’ in food texture analysis. For fifty years they’ve been the instruments of choice by leading brands to ensure texture consistency and desired product characteristics. Spectronic Camspec also offer flame photometers - which sequentially analyse sodium, potassium, lithium, calcium and barium – alongside a range of refractometers, from low cost hand held devices to versatile bench-based systems.