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Nutritional value

To calculate the nutritional value, you first need to determine the amount of fat, protein, and carbohydrate content. It’s also possible to include the amount of dietary fiber in the calculation for your nutritional value. The nutritional value is expressed in Kcal or Kjoule per 100 gram.

Fat analysis 

In food, fat can be present in different ways. This means, depending on the kind of food you want to analyze, that you have to pick a specific fat analyzing method that suits the type of product and fat you wish to examine. NutriControl has different validated analyzing methods that will fit your specific wishes.  

Saturated fatty acids

besides knowing the amount of fat in your product it is also good to know the type of fat. We determine this with a fatty acid composition method.

Protein analysis 

For analyzing proteins we use the Kjeldahl method. This method is used as a reference method for analyzing proteins. But NutriControl also has the knowledge and equipment to use a method called Dumas for analyzing proteins.

Carbohydrates

The amount of carbohydrates can be determined by calculation or analyzing a sample. A total carbohydrates analysis gives, besides the amount of carbohydrates, also the amount of sugars (mono- and disaccharides) like lactose, glucose, maltose, saccharose, fructose and galactose. This information is of importance to determine if sugar was added.

Dietary fiber

NutriControl uses the AOAC method AOAC 991.43 to determine the amount of dietary fiber. We perform this analysis on a regular basis so we can promise short lead times.

Sodium

Although sodium is not a nutritional value, most of the times it is included in a nutritional value analysis. This is because besides the nutritional values the level of sodium is also mentioned on food labels. Based on the level of sodium it’s easy to calculate the salt level of the product. As alternative it’s also possible to determine the level of chloride.

Product matrix

• Milk and dairy products
• Foods