“…Knowledge of these properties is important for a variety of reasons: the shelf life of many food emulsions depends on the rheological characteristics, and also the sensory descriptors of food emulsions are related to their reological properties (spreadability, smoothness, pourability, hardness). The major factors influencing emulsion rheology are disperse phase volume fraction, droplet size and droplet-size distribution, rheology of component phases, and colloidal interactions (Dickinson and Golding, 1997a;Dickinson, 2000).…”