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Introducing New Tests Parameters
At Cultivator Phyto Lab, we are committed to providing our customers with the highest quality testing services to meet their evolving needs. We are proud to announce the launch of our latest test services, which are designed to help our customers...
Types of Sampling Methods and Their Impacts on Test Reports
Introduction Three components of analysis of any test parameter have crucial impacts on your test reports through the cascade of sampling technique, sample preparation, and sample analysis. The first step is the sampling procedure, which is one of...
Sensory analysis is the compelling scale of food products
Background of Sensory test The crunchy sound and spicy, sour-salty, creamy texture of a French fry make you crave food products, and this is the best formulation that evokes sensory perception to consume food articles. In this way, food industries...
Olive Oil Production and Olive Oil Testing in India
Olive is one of the oldest cultivated plants and is native to Italy and the eastern Mediterranean Basin. It is an evergreen with an average height of 6 to 9 meters and can survive in dry climates with high temperatures, temperate, cool dry climates...
Saffron is the Most Expensive Spices in the World
Why saffron is the most expensive spice? Saffron carries the world’s most expensive food additive seasoning, which is derived from the stigmas of a purple flower of Crocus sativus Linnaeus, a member of the botanical family Iridaceae. Others refer...
Triphala is one of the world’s oldest medications
Introduction One of the most ancient polyherbal medicines ever discovered for the treatment of human multi-alignment is Triphala. It is formulated with the blending of three vital dry fruits, each in an equal proportion (1:1:1) of Amla (Emblica...
Biofilm challenges for food manufacturers
A brief overview Biofilms are an umbrella protection of one or more types of microorganism communities that are enclosed together by a matrix-bound of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS). This attachment of microorganisms to any contact...
Detection of Mineral Oil in food products and their harmful effect on public health
mineral oils are a mixture of a complex and diversified compound of saturated and aromatic hydrocarbons known as mineral oil aromatic hydrocarbons (MOAH) and mineral oil saturated hydrocarbons (MOSH), Mineral oil aromatic hydrocarbons (MOAH) fall under the category of poly aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) while PAH is well established as a cancer-causing agent.
Food fortification
A brief introduction to food fortification Food fortification is one of the major public health concerns to mitigate mass malnutrition in societies. In the present scenario, governments and other agencies very well understand that without a...
Seaweed; A great scope for nutraceutical food
On the way to finding smart food Now, these days, a concept has developed to eat well for a healthy future and future generations, which creates great awareness among healthy aspirant consumers and leads their culinary activity toward a better...
How to Check Cow Ghee Purity—Here’s All you Need to Know
Be it cooking or its use in Ayurvedic medicine, desi ghee has been used in India for centuries. It not only adds to the taste but is used as a cure for numerous ailments in India. Almost everyone uses ghee. However, there are very few people who...
A Quick Laboratory Testing of Fresh Fruits & Vegetables
The constant improvement in our lifestyle is pushing the demand for various off-season fruits and fresh vegetables. But processing these products is adversely affecting the yield and quality. Insecticides and pesticides are generally used in the...
How Water Is Used As An Adulterant In Food Products
Water adulteration is not only limited to milk, but is also used in alcohol, soft drinks, and other beverages. Fruit juice products are added with dilution water to increase volume. It is one of the most serious frauds for getting economic benefits, especially if poor quality water is added to fruit juice to cause serious health issues for the consumer.
Most Common Food Preservation Techniques
Food Preservation Food is any substance that is consumed to provide nutritional support for an organism. Food is usually of plant, animal, or fungal origin and contains essential nutrients, such as carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, or...
Ayurvedic formula development for new drugs
Ayurvedic Medicine Testing services for heavy metals, purity of the herbal drugs, and bio-burden or microorganism contamination for your herbal drug development.
Laboratory Testing of Herbs & Spices —An Ultimate Guide
Herbs and spices truly justify their names as they can spice up the plainest of delicacies in an instant. Food without them can taste extremely bland. Their significance to the human palate is what makes them treasured and invaluable. Even spice...
Analysis of Milk—How can Adulteration be Detected?
Milk has always been an indispensable and inseparable part of people’s food regimes. Milk and milk products, regardless of age, never fail to provide much-needed comfort after a long, exhausting day. So, it becomes crucial to ensure that milk is...
Lumpy Skin Disease (LSD) in Livestock
At present, nature has been causing a lot of threatening viruses to the animal kingdom, such as Ebola virus disease, Monkeypox, Marburg virus, and most recently, Lumpy skin disease virus in livestock and other lethal viruses.We are discussing a...
New Trends of Food Adulteration
Adulteration is the addition of intentionally or unintentionally any resemble cheap ingredients to main food and food products or removing valuable ingredients like essential oil from spices to alter the quality of food and make illegal profit even...
Carbides are adulterants used to rapidly ripen fruits & vegetables
Most of fruits commonly use artificial fruit ripening calcium carbide, which causes health hazards to society at the community level.
Effect of Uric Acid on Human Health
Uric acid is an end product of purine which is produced during metabolic activity in humans while in animals’ uric acid is converted into allantoin with the help of the uricase enzyme. A normal amount of uric acid in blood does not have any...
Food borne diseases, a major threatens to consumer level
More than 200 diseases are caused by the consumption of contaminated foods or beverages1. Contaminants could either be biotic or abiotic. Biotic contaminants include bacteria, viruses, parasites, protozoans, fungus, or any other organisms or their...
Microbial Analysis–What you Must Know
With the ever-increasing contact with microorganisms, microbial analysis is becoming a requirement across a plethora of industries. Any industry where human health is at risk of being adversely affected by the presence of disease-causing bacteria...
Here’s Everything you Need to Know About Soil Testing & Analysis
Wish to make your plants thrive? Ever tried testing the pH of your soil? If you’re worried about the stunted growth of your plants, maintaining healthy soil is the first step towards rectifying it. And you can proceed with maintenance only when you...
BPA (Bisphenol A) Harmful Effect on the Human Body
Plastic polymers are a plethora of anthropogenic signatures which have a wide array of applications. Its existence is cosmopolitan in our daily life and now its exposure or encounter with human beings rise a serious question to the biological...