TA Instruments TGA 2950 - Banana Taffy

TA I NSTRUMENTS TGA 2950 B–69
Hi-Res
TM
Option
about 10 mg is used, the sample material may
rise up in the pan and touch the sample tempera-
ture thermocouple. If MSG is heated to tem-
peratures well above 500
°
C, it will leave a
residue which is difficult to remove from the
sample pan.
Banana Taffy
In Figures B.19 and B.20 we analyzed a sample
of artificial banana taffy, a common confection-
ery product composed primarily of water and
sugar, which has a number of overlapped
transitions between 100
°
C and 500
°
C. Figure
B.19 shows the result of a conventional constant
heating rate scan of taffy at 10
°
C/minute. Figure
B.20 shows the result of a 50
°
C/minute dynamic
rate Hi-Res
TM
scan at resolution setting 4.0 and
sensitivity setting 1.0.
Figure B.19