Food & Dietary Supplements
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Macronutrients
Ash
Gravimetric Determination
Official Methods of Analysis of AOAC INTERNATIONAL (2000) 17th Ed., AOAC INTERNATIONAL, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, Official Method 923.03. (Modified)
Calories
By calculation
United States Department of Agriculture, "Composition of Foods," Agricultural Handbook, No. 8, pp. 159-160, (1982)
Calorimeter (Bomb calorimetry)
Oxygen Bomb Calorimetry and Combustion Methods, Manual No. 160, Parr Instrument, Moline, IL, 1981. (Modified)
Carbohydrates (total)
By calculation
Composition of Foods, Agriculture Handbook No. 8, United States Department of Agriculture, pp. 164-165, 1975
Fat
Acid hydrolysis
Official Methods of Analysis of AOAC INTERNATIONAL (2000) 17th Ed., AOAC INTERNATIONAL, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, Official Methods 922.06, 954.02. (Modified)
Enzymatic Hydrolization (methanol/chloroform)
Official Methods of Analysis of AOAC INTERNATIONAL (2000) 17th Ed., AOAC INTERNATIONAL, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, Official Method 983.23. (Modified)
Hydrolization (Roese-Gottlieb Method)
Official Methods of Analysis of AOAC INTERNATIONAL (2000) 17th Ed., AOAC INTERNATIONAL, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, Official Methods 905.05, 920.11, 932.06. (Modified)
Soxhlet Extraction
Official Methods of Analysis of AOAC INTERNATIONAL (2000) 17th Ed., AOAC INTERNATIONAL, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, Official Method 960.39. (Modified)
Sum of fatty acids
Calculation upon request
Moisture
Vacuum oven
Official Methods of Analysis of AOAC INTERNATIONAL (2000) 17th Ed., AOAC INTERNATIONAL, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, Official Methods 925.09, 926.08. (Modified)
Autotitration (Karl Fischer method)
The United States Phamacopeia, Twenty-Fifth Revision, United States Pharmacopeial Convention, Inc.: Rockville, Maryland (2002)
Protein
Protein Analyzer (Dumas Method)
Official Methods of Analysis of AOAC INTERNATIONAL (2000) 17th Ed., AOAC INTERNATIONAL, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, Official Method 968.06. (Modified)
Titration (Kjeldahl Method)
Official Methods of Analysis of AOAC INTERNATIONAL (2000) 17th Ed., AOAC INTERNATIONAL, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, Official Methods 955.04, 979.09. (Modified)
Bradstreet, R. B., The Kjeldahl Method for Organic Nitrogen, Academic Press, New York, New York (1965). (Modified)
Kalthoff, I. M., and Sandell, E. B., Quantitative Inorganic Analysis, MacMillan, New York (1948). (Modified)
Proximate package (moisture, ash, protein, and fat)
Gravimetric
Official Methods of Analysis of AOAC INTERNATIONAL (2000) 17th Ed., AOAC INTERNATIONAL, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, Official Methods 925.09, 926.08. (Modified)
Official Methods of Analysis of AOAC INTERNATIONAL (2000) 17th Ed., AOAC INTERNATIONAL, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, Official Method 923.03. (Modified)
Official Methods of Analysis of AOAC INTERNATIONAL (2000) 17th Ed., AOAC INTERNATIONAL, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, Official Method 968.06. (Modified)
Official Methods of Official Methods of Analysis of AOAC INTERNATIONAL (2000) 17th Ed., AOAC INTERNATIONAL, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, Official Methods 922.06 and 954.02. (Modified)
Specific gravity
Calculation
The United States Phamacopeia, Twenty-Fifth Revision, United States Pharmacopeial Convention, Inc.: Rockville, Maryland (2002)
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