Thc texture o f foods is an important physical property for designing equipment for controlling various food processes and for product quality control. In previous papers33) we studied the properties of liquid foods with particular reference to their flow and to their related equations. In this investigation, a simple and reliable apparatus was assernbled and used for studying the rheological properties of solid foods, paying particular attention to compression properties. The rheological properties of agar, agar-sugar, and agar-salt gels were invesigated. The results show an increase of compressive breaking stress with agar concentration and crosshead speed. In the limited ranges of our study, addition of salt and sugar has little significance, if any, for the properties of agar gels.