Instrumental Texture Profile of Traditional Varieties of Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) and its Relationship to Consumer Textural Preferences.

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Among components of the consumer's perception of tomato fruit quality, texture is one of the most critical, being formed of a number of attributes that are difficult to evaluate and which change during fruit ripening and storage. The present work relates different textural parameters measured in a collection of traditional tomatoes from Madrid with the appreciation collected from consumer opinions. Texture traits...

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