where: m0 is the characteristic consistency index, t12 is the shear stress (Pa) and n0 is the flow behavior index (which can vary between 0 and 2). For the mucilage concentration studied in this work, N1 is reasonably predicted by Equation (5), where m0 and n0 are given in the caption of Fig 6. Values of N1 are higher in the case
of SD-mucilage as compared to fresh mucilage but the slope remains the same. This is expected since the total solid content between the samples is different. Similar trends were observed in the literature for a wide range of synthetic biopolymers