Vegan Product Tests: Ingredient Verification and Quality Control

What is Vegan Nutrition? What are the Importance, Benefits and Harms?

What is Vegan Nutrition?

Environmental pollution, GMOs, imitation-adulteration applied to foods, the idea of healthy nutrition has gained importance. Especially recently, the most popular type of nutrition is “Vegan Nutrition”. Vegan nutrition can be briefly defined as a type of nutrition in which animal-derived foods such as eggs, milk and honey are not consumed, except meat and meat products. Especially abroad, vegan nutrition is more preferred.

Vegan nutrition, which is increasingly attracting attention for sustainability and healthy nutrition reasons, has also started to affect the food sector. Many companies, especially abroad, have started to take their place in the increasing vegan market.

The production and sale of plant-based snacks, vegan protein production, vegan protein bars are increasing. There are many different vegan products currently on the market. One of them is “soy mince”, a product made from the ground part of the soybean seed, which is used in many vegetable dishes.

One of the most popular vegan products abroad is plant-based milks. Plant milks are generally derived from foods such as almonds, soy, rice, coconut and oats. Plant milks are also used in cheese production. Thus, vegan cheeses are obtained. Cream cheese, walnut, pepper and plain cheese are produced from vegetable milk.

The most interesting vegan product is the vegetable egg. Vegetable egg, which is offered for sale in powder form, can be used as an egg substitute in all meals and can even be used in omelettes.

As a result; vegan product production has become the most popular and growing sector of recent times. In our country, vegan nutrition and vegan product production are increasing day by day.

Content Verification Tests in Vegan Products

Raw Material Verification: The raw materials used in the products must comply with vegan standards. In these tests, it is checked whether the ingredients used in the products are of animal origin.
PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) Analysis: It is a common technique to ensure the accuracy of herbal ingredients used in vegan products. This DNA-based method can detect the presence of animal genetic material.
HPLC (High Performance Liquid Chromatography): Used to verify plant-based ingredients used in vegan products. This method detects the presence and concentrations of animal products in products.

Nanolab Laboratories Group continues to provide services within the scope of Vegan Food Analysis. We also provide services in Organic Food Analysis.

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