A Dynamical Studies on Mastication VII

Checkup Examination of Masticatory Efficiency using by a Japanese Fish Cake so called “Kamaboko”(1st report)

Abstract

Our own checkup examination of masticatory efficiency was developed by using protein quantitative analysis.
The purpose of this report was to performance basic research about effectiveness of our checkup examination and was to research the condition of increasing surface area with mastication.
In this study, a Japanese fish cake so called “Kamaboko” was selected to test food according to a result of study on physical property of foods.
The results obtain were as follows:
1. Effectiveness of our own method demonstrated by result of preparatory experiment.
2.“Kamaboko” is so much better as test food.
3. It is necessary for to compare and to examine about masticatory efficiency to research 3 kinds of test foods thickness and better number of masticating time to reserch for masticatory efficiency is about 10 times.