Abstract
The authors have found that equal fractions of the number of raw rice particles are shattered by each successive stroke of an equal count of mastication. The mathematical representation of this statement is
N=N0⋅10-kt
or
log(N/N0×100)=2-kt
where N0 is the number of raw rice particle, N is its number after the masticatory stroke (t), and the constant k is the mastication coefficient (masticatory index).
