1 / 13

Basic Food Analysis Equipment

Basic Food Analysis Equipment. Appropriate equipment is essential for reliable and valid results. Equipment -- Mass (Weight). Electronic balance 100-gram mass Analytical balance. Electronic balance. Equipment -- Length.

jrhonda
Download Presentation

Basic Food Analysis Equipment

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Basic Food Analysis Equipment Appropriate equipment is essential for reliable and valid results.

  2. Equipment -- Mass (Weight) • Electronic balance • 100-gram mass • Analytical balance Electronic balance A1.01 -- Food Analysis Equipment

  3. Equipment -- Length • The metric system is the common unit of measure used within the scientific community. • Ruler that measures length in centimeter and millimeter divisions A1.01 -- Food Analysis Equipment

  4. Equipment -- Volume • Beakers • Graduated cylinders • Test tubes • Erlenmeyer flasks • Pipettes • Volumetric pipettes Graduated cylinder A1.01 -- Food Analysis Equipment

  5. Equipment -- Temperature • Alcohol thermometer • Candy thermometer • Celsius thermometers • Bi-metallic stemmed thermometer • Thermocouple • Continuous read thermometer Note: Do not use GLASS thermometers. A1.01 -- Food Analysis Equipment

  6. Equipment -- Time • An accurate stopwatch or clock • The stopwatch or clock must be able to measure time in seconds. A1.01 -- Food Analysis Equipment

  7. Equipment -- pH • Litmus paper • pH indicator strips • pH meter A1.01 --Food Analysis Equipment

  8. Equipment – Water activity • Hand-held unit • Stationary unit A1.01 --Food Analysis Equipment

  9. Equipment -- Color • Colorimeter • Spectrophotometer • Hunterlab Color and Color Difference Meter A1.01 --Food Analysis Equipment

  10. Equipment -- Viscosity • Simple equipment • Stopwatch • Funnel • Bostwick Consistometer • Viscometer A1.01 -- Food Analysis Equipment

  11. Equipment -- Refractometer • Used to measure sugar content of foods • Often used by growers to check sugar content of fruit before picking. A1.01 -- Food Analysis Equipment

  12. Equipment – Texture Analyzer • Simple equipment – knife and cutting board • Texture analyzer – multiple attachments to measure: • succulence of fruit • tenderness • force required to move a plunger a fixed distance through a food. A1.01 -- Food Analysis Equipment

  13. Equipment -- Stretchability • Simple equipment • Fork • Ruler • Tensile stretch test equipment A1.01 -- Food Analysis Equipment

More Related