Composition and nutritional analysis enable the food industry to meet regulatory labeling requirements and demonstrate high quality standards.
Our Composition & Nutritional Analysis Services
With growing consumer concerns over food quality and nutritional content, our nutritional testing services support businesses in achieving food safety compliance across target markets. Mérieux NutriSciences offers extensive food testing capabilities, enhancing product quality monitoring from development to shelf life.
Nutritional Analysis
To ensure accurate labeling and packaging, nutritional information such as sugars, salt, and fat content must undergo confirmation and validation through analytical techniques.
Mérieux NutriSciences offers a wide range of nutritional analyses to assist food manufacturers, restaurants, caterers and distributors worldwide. Our laboratories are ISO 17025 accredited.
Enhance Your Nutrition Testing With Our Comprehensive Analysis, Covering:
- Energy
- Lipids, fats and oils: fat content, fatty acid profiles, trans fatty acids, cholesterol, omega fatty acids, free fatty acids, peroxide value, thiobarbituric acid (TBA)
- Proteins: amino acid profiles, proteins
- Carbohydrates: total dietary fiber, total dietary fiber by codex, novel fibers, crude fiber, sugar substitutes, starch, sugar and sugar profiles – basic and expanded screens, sugar alcohols
- Vitamins: water-soluble and fat-soluble
- Minerals: commonly labeled minerals, individual element analyses
- Basic and expanded screens: basic composition / proximates, ash, fat, crude fiber, moisture, protein, salt
Mandatory EU Nutrition Declaration Requirements, According to Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011, Include:
- Energy value
- Fat
- Saturates
- Carbohydrate
- Sugars
- Protein
- Salt
Optional or Mandatory Expanded Nutrition Information for Nutrition or Health Claims:
- Mono-unsaturates
- Polyunsaturates
- Polyols
- Starch
- Fibre
- Vitamins and minerals*
- Other nutrients: omega 3, omega 6, etc.
*Listed in Annex XIII of Regulation 1169/2011 and present in significant amounts as defined in that Annex.
For dietetic products, specific regulations, in addition to Regulation 1169/2011, apply. Similarly, nutritional information for food supplements and mineral waters is governed by their specific regulations, not by Regulation 1169/2011.
Our labeling specialists are ready to develop a nutrient analysis program tailored to your specific needs.
Nutrient Quantification
We measure all nutrients comprising the nutritional information using methods adapted for each food matrix, including:
- Proteins, fats, carbohydrates, energy value, dietary fiber, sugars, saturated fats, salt (sodium)
- Fibers (beta-fructosans, beta-glucans, GOS, dietary fiber)
- Organic acids (citric, acetic, lactic, tartaric, etc.)
- Alcohol (ethanol)
- Other nutrients: cholesterol, starch, polyols (sorbitol, lactitol, isomalt, erythritol, etc.), monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats (omega 3, omega 6)
Vitamins & Minerals Testing Includes
- Water-soluble: vitamin C (ascorbic acid), vitamin B1 (thiamin), vitamin B2 (riboflavin),vitamin B3 (niacin), vitamin B5 (pantothenic acid), vitamin B6 (pyridoxine), vitamin B8 (biotin), vitamin B9 (folic acid), vitamin B12 (cyanocobalamin)
- Fat soluble: vitamin A (retinol), vitamin D (cholecalciferol), vitamin E (alpha tocopherol), vitamin K (filoquinone)
- Minerals: calcium, phosphorus, iron, magnesium, magnesium, zinc, iodine, potassium, copper, manganese, fluoride, selenium, chromium, molybdenum, chloride
- Aminoacids
Composition Testing & Quality Indicators
Mérieux NutriSciences assesses the composition and quality of each product considering the nature of the product and the proper quality indicators, performing ,among others, tests with the following parameters:
- pH
- Titratable acidity
- Peroxide value
- Free fatty acids (FFA)
- Viscosity
- Water activity
- Specific gravity
- Preservatives and additives such as sorbic acid, benzoic acid, sulphur dioxide
- Histamine
- Determination of undenatured whey protein nitrogen
- Insolubility index
- Volatile oil
- Ash
- Piperine, ASTA color, capsaicin, curcumin, bitterness, color, texture, etc.