Nutritional Information Solutions (NIS)
Nutritional Information Solutions (NIS)
New legislation requires producers to label all foods with nutritional composition data. NIS can provide software to enable you to calculate your nutritional information from your recipe ingredients or if preferred can calculate the nutritional information for you.
Please follow the link below to find out more about NIS;
www.nutritionalinformationsolutions.com
Buffalo Mozzarella Authentication
QIB Extra offers a new test to combat buffalo mozzarella fraud.
Coffee Authentication
QIB Extra is pleased to announce a new rapid analysis for the screening of Arabica coffee.
Analysis of Food Bioactives
Food Bioactives, particularly plant-based bioactives, are the focus of intense research with regards to their beneficial health properties.
Microbiology
Food Safety is an essential part of product manufacture. QIB extra has expertise in the major bacterial pathogens of concern and can help with process validation with regards to ensuring safety guidelines are met.
Food Quality
QIB Extra can help you in all aspects of food quality; shelf-life, authenticity, texture analysis and product consistency.
Stats and Analysis
We offer access to a team of professional statisticians who will aim to give understandable answers to your data analysis questions or problems as well as help you design experiments.
NCYC
National Collection of Yeast Cultures (NCYC) offers a number of commercial services including contract R&D, yeast identification, DNA fingerprinting and safe deposit.
Authentication
Utilizing the expertise of the Analytical Sciences Unit at Quadram Institute, QIB Extra is able to offer rapid screening methods for detecting substitution of undeclared material in foods.
Applied Research and Analytical Services for Industry
Latest News
05/03/2019
Scientists from the Quadram Institute on the Norwich Research Park have developed a test that differentiates between buffalo and cow’s milk, and between the cheeses made from them. Applying the test to commercial products, they found that many restaurant meals and supermarket pizzas claiming to be buffalo mozzarella are mislabelled, and instead contain mozzarella made wholly or partially from cows’ milk.
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25/01/2019
Mark Philo, Researcher at QIB talks anthoyanins and how we determine their profiles in several different foodstuffs.
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