Table 1.

Average number of “pearls” collected from five different commercial samples of Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese

Sieve mesh size	Meana	Standard deviationa
5.60	7	8
4.00	127	46
2.00	321	84

Each cheese sample weighed approximately 680 g. Means and standard deviations correspond to the numbers of pearls retained on stacked sieves of decreasing mesh size from 5.60 to 2.00 mm

^a n = 5