Fortified Foods

At Mettex Lab, we are expert in offering you full services in fortified Food analysis to help you meet your customers’ and regulatory organs requirements. The analysis of our food fortification is simple and straightforward in that it is specifically designed to give precise and credible results when implemented on the fortified foods such as fortified cereals, fortified flour, fortified milk, and fortified oils.

For nutritional analysis of vitamin/mineral/micronutrient fortification, we have many services which are cost effective for identifying the best blend for your food products.

Our Testing Services Include:

1. Fortified Rice & Fortified Rice Kernel Testing:

●     Folic Acid Results

●     Cyanocobalamin (Vitamin B12) Blood examination

●     Iron Testing

2. Fortified Milk Testing:

●     Vitamin A Content Analysis

●     Testing of Food For Vitamin D Fortification 

Nutritional Profiles & Evaluation

Our services are comprehensive to help the manufacturers meet the food fortification compliance through the services such as; fortification verification and fortified food nutrient analysis. There is HPLC nutrient analysis for nutrients; ICP-MS mineral testing for minerals; spectrophotometry testing; and chromatography analysis for nutrients like vitamins.

Our testing also helps your products to be fortified to the right levels so that they meet the food fortification standards as well as meet the regulatory compliance testing needs. This, in turn, helps us to achieve nutrient level consistency between different batches; we conduct fortification level testing, fortification stability testing, and homogeneity testing.

Testing for Various Fortified Food Products

Our testing services cover a wide range of fortified food products, including:

●     Iodized Salt Testing

●     Iron-fortified Products

●     Fortified Vegetable Oils

●     Fortified Atta/Maida

●     Fortified Cereal Analysis

●     Fortified Rice & Rice Kernel Testing

In addition, we provide vitamin fortification testing including Vitamin D fortification, calcium content analysis, folic acid testing, and iodine fortification analysis. We also conduct mineral fortification analysis on key minerals such as iron, iodine, and calcium.

Nutritional Profiles & Evaluation

Our comprehensive services help manufacturers meet food fortification compliance through services like fortification verification and fortified food nutrient analysis. We use advanced techniques such as HPLC nutrient analysis for vitamins, ICP-MS mineral testing for minerals, spectrophotometry testing, and chromatography analysis for vitamins.

We also perform micronutrient analysis to assess the bioavailability and concentration of essential nutrients. This ensures your products are fortified to the right levels to meet food fortification standards and regulatory compliance testing requirements. To achieve nutrient consistency across batches, we conduct fortification level testing, fortification stability testing, and homogeneity testing.

Compliance and Label Claim Verification

Our fortification guidelines testing ensures compliance with FDA fortification compliance standards and international fortification regulations. We also perform label claim verification to confirm the accuracy of the nutritional values listed on your product labels, ensuring that they reflect the actual nutrient content.

Why Choose Mettex Lab?

●     Expertise: We have a talented team who have knowledge about the modern techniques such as atomic absorption testing and nutrient bioavailability testing so that the best result would be got.

●     Regulatory Compliance: Our services also include checking on the general compliance of your products to food fortification compliance regulations and process verification to ascertain the conformity of your fortified foods.

●     Quality Assurance: Depending on the fortification level that our client wants for the production batch, we provide batch testing solutions.

Let Mettex Lab handle all your fortified food testing so that you are guaranteed quality as well as nutritional value of all food products. Call us today to know more on our fortified food nutrient analysis and nutrient testing services.

FAQ's

1. Fortified food testing, what is this and why is it important?

Another functional and analytical method is an application of the fortified food testing which imply the assessment of the content of vitamin and/or mineral supplements, which has been added to foodstuffs. To this end, there is need to ensure that fortified foods have passed through regulatory quality check and have potential health benefits for the consumer.

2. Which kinds of fortificants do you analyse?

Our testing services include testing of fortified food products which includes fortified rice, fortified milk, products fortified with Iron, iodized salt, fortified cereals, fortified vegetable oils. Our testing guarantees that such products are compliant with the laid down regulations and are nutritional value.

3. How do you control the rise and incidence of food fortification regulation?

In order to meet the food fortification standards we carry out tests such as fortification level test, fortification stability test and homogeneity test. Also, we have FDA fortification compliance and assist in verification of labels as a way of affording validation to the national and international benchmark.

4. What techniques do you employ in testing your micronutrient quality?

For vitamin analysis we employ HPLC nutrient analysis while for minerals we employ ICP-MS, spectrophotometry testing, chromatography analysis to determine micronutrient content and quality of fortified foods.

5. Of the component parts of the label: Nutrition fact panels are accurate?

Yes, we are involved in offering label claim verification services. In diagnostics, we standardize the nutritional content of your product with the content listed on your label to affirm their authenticity and conformity to food fortification standards.