An indispensable tool for the food lab, Metrohm Application Bulletin 141.
Metrohm, the world’s leading supplier of titration equipment, has a vast amount of information to share, freely downloadable from the Metrohm website. An example which constitutes a library of information is Application Bulletin 141, “Analysis of Edible Fats and Oils”.
The Application Bulletin describes the following analytic methods for edible oils and fats:
- Determination of water content in accordance with the Karl Fischer method
- Oxidation stability in accordance with the Rancimat method
- Iodine value
- Peroxide value
- Saponification value
- Acid value, free fatty acids (FFA)
- Hydroxyl number
