“…The formation and control of micro-and macro-structures in concentrated food systems is still poorly understood (Purwanti, Van der Goot, Boom, & Vereijken, 2010) and scientific appreciation of the length scale differences involved in solid food materials remains a considerable challenge (Ubbink, Burbridge, & Mezzenga, 2008). All soft matter, is in principle, thermodynamically unstable (Van der Sman & Van der Goot, 2009), which leads invariably to age-related, structural and textural change, one manifestation of which is hardening.…”