Category: Food

Method validation on HPLC
Food

Oryzanol Testing in Mustard Oil Using HPLC Method

  Mustard oil has been used in Indian households for ages. However, these were extracted and used locally in older times. For this reason, people never doubted the quality of the oil. Now, on the other hand, these oils are sold on a large scale. That is why several people

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Trans Fat
Food

AOAC Method for Trans Fats Detection – FTIR

What is AOAC? The AOAC was established more than 130 years ago in 1884 by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Originally, it was called Association of Official Agricultural Chemists. Its name was changed to Association of Official Analytical Chemists in 1965. Since 1991, it has been known as

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Food

Eating Food at the Roadside – What Should You Take Care?

World Health Organization estimates that 600 million people worldwide suffer from consumption of contaminated food, of which 420,000 die. This includes approximately 125,000 children in the under-5 years’ age-group (WHO, 2015). Five-year data (2011-2016) from the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has shown that food-borne outbreaks along with acute

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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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