mealiness
Dry, crumbly quality
Mealiness is the quality of being mealy—dry, soft, and crumbly like meal or flour.
The word most often describes disappointing fruit or vegetable texture: The mealiness of those supermarket tomatoes ruined the salad.
Apples past their prime develop an unpleasant mealiness, as do overcooked potatoes.
Reduced to fine particles
- flouryCovered with grain dust
- chalkyPale and dusty-textured
- grainyRough with particles
- crumblyProne to fragmenting
friable · dry · cottony · pulpy · gritty · sandy · coarse · granular
Cooked by dry heat
- mashedCrushed to softness
- flouryCovered with grain dust
- russetReddish-brown color
- starchyContaining complex carbohydrates
fluffy · crumbly · dry · boiled · roasted · overcooked · disintegrating · grainy
Edible pod seeds
- chickpeasBeige edible legumes
- lentilsSmall edible legume seeds
- hummusMashed chickpea spread
- favaLarge edible legume
dal · undercooked · overcooked · starchy · grainy · paste · mashed · spread
Crisp tree fruit
apricot · tomato · overripe · woolly · soft · tasteless · disappointing · bruised
After crops collected
- storageSpace for keeping goods
- cultivarBred plant variety
- breedingReproductive cultivation of organisms
- geneticsScience of hereditary transmission
resistance · ripeness · senescence · quality control · shelf life
powdery
Reduced to fine particles
crumbly · friable · dry · cottony · pulpy · gritty · sandy · coarse · granular · soft
baked
Cooked by dry heat
starchy · fluffy · crumbly · dry · boiled · roasted · overcooked · disintegrating · grainy · powdery
beans
Edible pod seeds
fava · dal · undercooked · overcooked · starchy · grainy · paste · mashed · spread · puree
apple
Crisp tree fruit
plum · apricot · tomato · overripe · woolly · soft · tasteless · disappointing · bruised · storage
postharvest
After crops collected
- storageSpace for keeping goods
- cultivarBred plant variety
- breedingReproductive cultivation of organisms
genetics · resistance · ripeness · senescence · quality control · shelf life
- Produce Qualitiesfreshness, ripeness, firmness, juiciness, sweetness
- grain qualityprotein content, moisture content, gluten content, hardness, dockage
mealinessjuiciness
State of being moist
succulence · sappiness · wateriness · lushness · moistness
mealinesscrispness
Snappy, firm texture
crunchiness · firmness · snap · tautness · crispiness
meal, meals, oatmeal, mealy, cornmeal, mealybug, mealy-mouthed