In order to ensure public health, it is crucial for all food manufacturers to accurately display nutritional information on their packaging. This allows consumers to make informed dietary choices.
Nutritional profiling
Elevate your food products with unmatched nutritional insight
In food manufacturing, the key to success lies in delivering high-quality, safe, and nutritionally optimized products. Nutritional profiling ensures our food is healthy by verifying it has the appropriate levels of nutrients.
SCIEX delivers cutting-edge mass spectrometry technology. Here’s why incorporating mass spectrometry into your nutritional profiling process can revolutionize your product offerings:
Why choose Mass Spectrometry?
- Mass spectrometry provides an exceptional level of accuracy in quantifying nutrients, helping to ensure your product labels reflect true nutritional content. This precise measurement supports compliance with labeling requirements and builds consumer trust in your brand.
- From lipids to vitamins, mass spectrometry covers an extensive range of compounds. Methods for new compounds can be expanded as your portfolio grows. This comprehensive profiling helps you understand the nutritional makeup of your products, allowing for better formulation.
- Mass spectrometry delivers exceptional levels of robustness. SCIEX systems are designed to cope with dirty matrices such as processed foods. The source design provides uniform temperature distribution and optimized curtain gas flow to improve robustness and ruggedness.
With faster turnaround times, you can bring new and improved products to market more quickly, staying ahead of the competition.
Nutritional profiling
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Featured resources for nutritional profiling
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Technical note
Simultaneous quantitation of fat-soluble vitamins in formula infant milk by LC-MS/MS
A comprehensive, high-throughput method for simultaneous determination for 8 fat-soluble vitamins using SCIEX QTRAP® 4500 System
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LC-MS/MS quantitation of artificial sweeteners in beverages
This technical note describes a direct injection method for the analysis of 9 artificial sweeteners in beverage samples including advantame, saccharin, sucralose, aspartame, acesulfame K, stevioside, rebaudioside, neotame, and sorbitol.
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SCIEX Triple Quad 4500 system
When your lab is faced with lots of samples and impending deadlines, you can't afford an unreliable mass spectrometry system that might crack when faced with pressure. The SCIEX Triple Quad 4500 system is designed to meet critical needs and avoid putting your lab or reputation at risk.
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Cutting into tallow: A lipidomic exploration of animal-based and alternatively sourced meat
Alternative meats are becoming very common in grocery stores and restaurants as concerns of global climate change are on the rise. While these products are based on other sources of proteins, lipids play an important role in these products as they contribute to taste and texture. This technical note describes how to analyze over 1000 analytes in a single MRM method to determine protein sources of plant or animal.
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Profiling and identification of hop-derived bitter compounds in beer using LC-MS/MS
The SCIEX X500R QTOF System was used to analyze 40 different beer samples in +ESI using information dependent acquisition (IDA) of MS and MS/MS spectra. A targeted approach was employed to profile 26 known hop-derived bitter compounds, using SCIEX OS Software. This study shows that LC-MS/MS is a valuable tool to study flavor and aroma profile in food and beverage samples.
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Screening and identification of natural products in citrus oil
A comprehensive suite of pesticides and natural products were identified in citrus oils through non-target SWATH Acquisition with MS/MS fragmentation spectral matching against the NIST library. Non-target data processing demonstrated the potential to detect hundreds of natural products whereas a targeted screening list was used to focus on 15 individual PMFs. A unique feature of this workflow is that both chemical classes –pesticides and natural products – were analyzed in the same injection, thus greatly simplifying the analysis.
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Citrus metabolomics with the ZenoTOF 7600 system
Highly sensitive MS/MS spectra using the ZenoTOF 7600 system improved nontargeted compound identification in citrus fruit extracts from mandarin oranges grown in the Sichuan province of China. The high quality fragmentation spectra from Zeno trapping enabled higher confidence in MS/MS library matches. Over 100 citrus components were identified through spectral matching against the Natural Products HR-MS/MS Library