“…& Zucc) (Yang et al, 2007), apple (Alvarez et al, 2002;Guine et al, 2011;Mehinagic et al, 2004;Zdunek and Bednarczyk, 2006), grape (Maury et al, 2009;Zouid et al, 2013), pineapple (MonteroCalderon et al, 2010), mango (Al-Haq andSugiyama, 2004), banana (Kajuna et al, 1997), date (Rahman and Al-Farsi, 2005;Singh et al, 2013), pear (Cho et al, 2010), blueberry (Chiabrando et al, 2009), and peach (Contador et al, 2015b). TPA has also been compared with simple compression tests (Fiszman and Damasio, 2000b) on pear (Salvador et al, 2007), mango (Al-Haq and Sugiyama, 2004), pineapple (Montero-Calderon et al, 2010), and blueberry (Li et al, 2011). When we are evaluating FFF with different maturity levels within a batch, the second peak of the TPA curve, corresponding to the maximum force of the second compression phase (F2), is quite useful because the variability due to the initial firmness among samples is attenuated; this is because F2 is assessed on the sample that has already been smashed (Contador et al, 2015b).…”