Food and drink
Aroma and flavour profiling
Understanding your products’ unique aroma and flavour profile are crucial when it comes to brand enhancement, optimising production processes, resolving any batch discrepancies or issues of taint. Oxford Indices laboratory equipped with two-dimensional gas chromatography coupled with time-of-flight mass spectrometry (GCxGC-TOF-MS), delivers accurate mapping of volatile and semi-volatile compounds in your product. This permits identification and quantification of the key components contributing to scent and taste, whilst minimising the prospect of important components being 'masked' by large solvent peaks.
Insights for processing and formulation
Product differentiation
Batch comparison and quality assurance
Problem diagnosis – taint and odour.
Authenticity and counterfeit detection
Successful brands present the opportunity for third parties to copy, counterfeit and infringe intellectual property increases exponentially. Counterfeit, substandard or adulterated products can lower the customer experience, damaging brand perception. Having a unique 3D surface chart or ‘fingerprint’ of your products composition enables product comparison and fraud detection, whether form blending, watering down or imitation. For brand protection, Oxford Indices offers a ‘mystery shopper’ sampling service and quality check for both on-trade and off-trade retail applications.
Our advantage: GCxGC-TOF-MS
Enhanced separation: two-dimensional chromatography provides superior separation power, allowing for the resolution of complex mixtures.
High sensitivity and selectivity: time-of-flight mass spectrometry provides excellent sensitivity and the ability to detect and identify trace-level contaminants.
Comprehensive analysis: together, the techniques are capable of analysing a wide range of compounds in a single run, reducing the need for multiple analytical methods.
Identification and quantification: many unknown compounds can be identified, their structure elucidated, and concentrations quantified.
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