Trans fat in Bakery products

What could be a simple and convenient method to find trans fat in bakery products (if they have to do on a daily or weekly basis). If it is not the expensive i…

  1. Food R&D Emeritus reply

    Technically ,there is no qualitative means of determining trans fats..iIs only by quantitative means using the chemical instrumentation you mentioned...I have not seen, heard or r…

  2. Food & Material Scientist reply

    Yes, with more regulations and labeling requirements, and especially since bakery products might have trans fats, they are now wanting to have this analysis. May be we will see th…

  3. Food R&D Emeritus reply

    Some firms want to know the exact composition of the fats or fat spectrum.i.e. The percentage of palmitic stearic oleic linoleic/,linoleic,etc which can imply the fat origin. This…

  4. Food R&D Emeritus reply

    [quote "nanoscientist, post:3, topic:8549, full:true"] 'third party analysis for the fat spectrum and trans fats' and did you mean from there one should be able to find the trans…

  5. Food & Material Scientist reply

    Ok got it..Thank you

  6. Food & Material Scientist reply

    Yes true, expensive and time consuming. thanks