Carbohydrates

Increasingly, carbohydrates and dietary fibres are very important and related to obesity, diabetes, fast and slow carbohydrates, glycemic index, low carb diets, natural and synthetic dietary fibres.

Developments in food with ingredients to reduce the risks on the above mentioned topics are very important to the modern food industry. More and more industrially prepared carbohydrates are added to products like infant formula, baby food, cookies, confectionary, cereals, energy and sport drinks. Therefore it is necessary to analyse the carbohydrate content in food and feed and its raw materials.

The classical tests for the testing of carbohydrates are often no longer applicable in products with industrially prepared ingredients. As a consequence, this can lead to inaccurate results and therefore inaccurate declarations on product labels. Eurofins Food has adapted to these new developments and, in 2006, established a completely new, specialised carbohydrate laboratory at their location in Heerenveen. With the highly qualified and experienced graduates, all possible carbohydrate tests have been upgraded, implemented or are in development. Few analyses used already are Inuline, t-GOS, FOS, Maltodextrines.

Contact: carbohydrates@eurofins.com