Nutritional Analysis
Cultivator Phyto Lab provides global support to the food and healthcare industries, helping manufacturers to provide safer and healthier products to consumers. The process of determining nutritional contents in food is known as “Nutritional Analysis,” and it is an important part of analytical chemistry that provides information about food compositions, processing, and contamination. Our physio-chemical laboratory equipped with advanced technologies and experts outlines various testing services, including nutritional facts labelling as part of nutritional analysis for the clients. We help by providing detailed and accurate reports of the nutritional labels for their food products consisting of the facts like compositions, minerals, carbohydrates, proteins, fat percentages, etc. that help the consumers in making purchase decisions
Mandatory Components (Energy Calories)
- Energy from Fat (Calories)
- Energy from carbohydrates (Calories)
- Total Fat
- Total carbohydrates
- Total Dietary fibers
- Soluble dietary fibres
- Insoluble dietary fibres
- Other carbohydrates
- Sugar alcohols (Mannitol, Xylitol)
- Sugar
- Protein
- Vitamins
- Minerals
Oils and Fats
- Fat Acid Profile
- Saponification Value
- Unsaponifiable Matter
- Acid Value
- Trans Fat
- Cholesterol
- Iodine Value
- Omega 3 fatty acid content
- Reichert Meissl and Polenske value
- Test for Sesame Oil (Baudouins Test)
- Test for presence of Argemone Oil
- Test for presence of Animal Body
- Fat in Vegetable Fat
- Refractive Index
Minerals
- Phosphorus
- Iodine
- Chloride
- Magnesium
- Zinc
- Selenium
- Copper
- Manganese
- Chromium
- Molybdenum
- Calcium
- Iron
- Sodium
- Potassium
- Magnesium
Vitamins
- Vitamin B1 (Thiamin)
- Vitamin B2 (Riboflavin)
- Vitamin B3 (Niacin)
- Vitamin B5 (Pantothenic acid)
- Vitamin B6 (Pyridoxine)
- Vitamin B12 (Cyanocobalamin)
- Vitamin B7 (Biotin)
- Vitamin B9 (Folic Acid)
- Vitamin A (Retinol, Retinyl esters)
- Vitamin D (Cholecalciferol)
- Vitamin E (Alpha Tocopherol)
- Vitamin C (Ascorbic acid)
- Vitamin K (Phylloquinone)
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