Year: 2017

Food

Desi Ghee vs Vanaspati – Which Will Kill You Sooner?

Ghee, also called clarified butter, originated in India and has been in use since antiquity in food recipes, Ayurvedic medicine, and religious rituals. The market size of ghee in India is INR 10,000 crores as of 2016. India is the world’s largest producer and consumer of ghee. Ghee is an ideal fat for deep frying because of its high smoke

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Food

We are Accredited for Trans Fats Testing in Food

Arbro: Excellence is Our Motto Arbro Pharmaceuticals is one of the largest contract research and testing organizations in India, with five state-of-the-art laboratories and over 300 fully-trained professional staff, serving various industries for over two decades. We at Arbro are dedicated to maintaining high-quality standards for our testing facilities. We

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milk adulteration
Food

Are trans fats good for you? – Natural trans fats in milk

Have you heard of natural trans fats in Milk? Before we tell you about this let us first discuss trans fats. Trans fats are partially hydrogenated meaning that they have one or more double bonds in the trans configuration. These trans fats impart solidity to margarine and plasticity to shortenings.

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trans fats
Food

How do trans fats get into your food?

Trans fats are a type of unsaturated fat, which can occur naturally or can be artificially produced. Naturally-occurring trans fats are produced in the gut of some animals such as cows and sheep and generally account for approximately 2-5% of fat content. The foods made from these animals including meat

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Pharma

Stability Testing Services

Stability of a pharmaceutical product means how long it can maintain its original form without any visible changes under the influence of various environmental factors like temperature, humidity, light. What Is Stability Testing? Stability testing is the statistical analysis of how long a pharmaceutical product can be stored without any

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Trans Fat Free
Food

Can you claim your product ‘Trans Fat Free’?

Trans fats are basically of two types, firstly those found naturally in dairy and meat products. Secondly, those that are industrially produced when liquid vegetable oils are partially hydrogenated by adding hydrogen atoms which turns them into semi-solid fats like vanaspati. Hydrogenated vegetable oils have a long shelf life so

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