Initial hardness, cohesiveness, and moisture release was evaluated in the first bite stage, whereas hardness of mass, cohesiveness of mass,
fibrousness, and number of chews to swallow were evaluated in the chew down stage.
The judges ranked the attributes of the samples in ascending order: color (less orange/ more orange), size (smaller/larger), peel texture (less smooth/smoother), fruit firmness (less firm/firmer), ease of peeling (difficult/easy), aroma (weak/strong), flavor (less sweet/sweeter),
fibrousness (less fibrous/ more fibrous), number of seeds (fewer seeds/more seeds), and preference (liked less/liked more).
Samples were evaluated in the sequence that they were arranged on the plate, according to the following attributes: color intensity, characteristic odor, fat and strange flavor, regarding flavor: characteristic, strange and residual flavor, hardness, juiciness,
fibrousness and overall acceptance.
Consumers perceived that color, size, springiness, chicken aroma, fatty/oily taste, sweetness, visible fact, tenderness, and
fibrousness were influenced perception towards chicken meat quality.
Chewing activities of cows were affected by body size (Bae et al., 1983), breed (Welch et al., 1970), fasting (Welch and Smith, 1968), forage intake (Welch and Smith, 1969a), forage quality (Welch and Smith, 1969b), forage maturity (Lippke, 1980), particle size (Yang and Beauchemin, 2009) and
fibrousness characteristics (Balch, 1971).
There are a number of physiologic processes that put older adults at an increased risk for developing UI, including increased
fibrousness of the bladder and decreased autonomic innervation (Tabloski, 2006).
This group evaluated color, crunchiness, sweetness,
fibrousness, blandness and overall preference of the 18 different carrot types grown using NFT and MTMS.
Fat-rich tissues usually taste very smooth and succulent ("juicy"), while on the contrary, when fat levels are low, the sensation of "dryness" or "
fibrousness" ("rough" or "coarse") describes the tissue better (Grigorakis et al.