| TEXTURE PARAMETER | TYPE OF TEXTURE MEASURING DEVICE | INSTRUMENT |
| firmness | penetrometer | Magness-Taylor Fruit Pressure tester Christel Texturometer Maturometer modified Cherry-burrell Meter Instron Texture Analyzer |
| resistance to compression | compressimeter | Baker Compressimeter |
| tenderness | shearing devices | Christel Texturometer Allo-Kramer Shear Press Lee-Kramer Shear Press Warner-Bratzler Shear Press Pabst Texture Tester Dassow's Shear-jaw Device Texture Analyzer |
| cutting firmness | Cutting device | Asparagus Fiberometer Cherry Burrell Curd Tension Meter |
| texture close to mastication (firmness, hardness, cohesiveness, crispness, springiness) | Masticometer | Volodkevich bits Tenderometer Denture Tenderometer MIT Denture Tenderometer General Foods Texturometer Allo-Kramer Shear Press |
| hardness, crispness | . | Shortometer |
| extrusion | extrusion | FIRA/NIRD Extruder |
| resistance to flow | viscosity | Ostwald Viscometer Cannon-Fenske Viscometer Lamb Capillary Viscometer Continuous Puree Consistometer |
| resistance to flow | viscosity | MacMichael Viscometer Brookfield Viscometer Vibratory Viscometer Zahn Viscometer |
| resistance to flow | viscosity other | Haake Rotovisko Viscometer Hoeppler Viscometer Brabender Visco/Amylograph Parten-Magberg Falling Number Stromer Viscometer |
| consistency of semi-solid | consistometer | Adams Consistometer Bostwick Consistometer Brabender Amylograph Kramer Shear Press RotoviscoRheometer |
| elasticity | extension elasticity | Brabender Extensograph Chopin Alveograph Simon "Research"Extensometer Mixograph Brabender Farinograph Resistograph Rheograph |
| gel strength | Empirical methods | Bloom Gelometer Boucher Electronic Jelly Tester F.I.R.A. Jelly Tester Exchange Ridgelimeter |
| gel strength | fundamental tests | Weissenberg Rheogoniometer Air Turbine Viscometer Parallel Plate Viscoclastometer "u" tube Freely oscillating float Velocity of propagation of transverse waves Tin-walled aluminum tube immersed Chainomatic balance relaxometer Oscillating Concentric Cylinder |
| gel strength | multipurpose units | Instron Universal Testing Machine Food Technology's Texture Test General Foods Texturometer |
