Energy Calculation Determination

Nutritional Value of Foods ... What Are The Analyzes Made?

We are becoming more aware of food consumption day by day. Most importantly, it is now more careful about reading tags. In particular, information such as additives and energy value contained in foods cause consumers to be selective.

Nowadays, with the increase in ready-to-eat food consumption, the biggest problem has been healthy nutrition. An important step in healthy nutrition is the questioning of the product purchased. Of course, our method of questioning the food we buy from the market is realized through the label.

Labeling of foods; It is carried out in a specific system within the scope of the "Turkish Food Codex Regulation on Food Labeling and Consumer Information". On the label in general; Information such as energy value, fat, carbohydrate, protein, salt, single unborn fat, fiber amount, starch, vitamin and mineral should be included depending on the structure of the food.

Energy values ​​and nutritional elements should be determined according to the end product that the food is offered to the consumer. The energy values ​​and the amount of nutrients in foods are carried out within the scope of laboratory analysis.

Tests performed to determine nutritional values ​​in general;

- Calculation of Carbohydrate and Energy Values ​​with Atwater Method
- Determination of Dietary Fiber
- Determination of Cholesterol Amount
- Determination of Ash
- Mineral Determination
- Determination of Starch
- Determination of Organic Acids
- Protein Determination
- Determination of Trans Fatty Acid Isomers
- Salt Analysis
- Determination of Fatty Acid Composition
- Fat Determination
- Vitamin Analysis

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