CIL Provides Accredited Edible Oil & Fats Inspection Services in Faridabad, Haryana, India. Measure, Validate, and Quantify Important Characteristics, Tests for fats and oils are essential for products spanning multiple industries, from animal feeds, soap production, cooking products, and beyond. For example, food producers need tests for fats and oils in order to fully disclose information about their contents, quality, and purity to their customers. Also, cooking oils and fats come in a huge variety of flavors, types, and blends. Both food service establishments and consumers demand this variety to meet different diets, cuisines, and nutritional requirements. Conducting tests, and other analysis, regarding fats and oils ensures the safety and quality of all these products. Testing also helps prevent potential spoilage due to rancidity as it can help determine the shelf life of the products. Lets examine some of the tests available in this area and what they are designed to uncover. Covering all your testing needs. CDG runs the gamut in food testing services, from microbiology to animal feeds and more. Various Types of Tests for Fats and Oils, When you work with a professional testing partner, they will analyze your samples for a variety of factors and attributes. Rancidity and physical characteristics are the two main types of testing done on fats and oils. Rancidity tests examine the quality and shelf life of a product. This information is essential in ensuring the safe use of the products for consumers. The first evidence of a spoiled product is often rancidity. This occurs when lipids, commonly identified as fats and oils in food products are exposed to air, light, moisture, or certain bacterial actions. The primary issue affected by rancidity is shelf life. Food items must be able to maintain their integrity to meet customer expectations for satisfaction and safety. When a lipid becomes rancid, it results in undesirable taste and odour characteristics which naturally negatively impacts the customer experience. A rancidity test identifies the level of lipid oxidation in a provided sample and is critical in establishing a products shelf life. While establishing the shelf life is a major driver for rancidity testing, the information gathered from these tests can extend to other areas as well. Differences in the product type, fat levels, ingredients or product composition, and even packaging can impact testing results. Therefore, these must all be factored into selecting the right test and when evaluating the findings. Here is a look at four of the rancidity tests typically used for fats and oils. Unsaponifiables are components of a fatty substance (oil, fat, wax) that fail to form soaps when treated with alkali and remain insoluble in water but soluble in organic solvents. For instance, typical soybean oil contains roughly 1.5 to 2.5 percent (by weight)of Unsaponifiable matter. Unsaponifiable constituents are an important consideration when selecting oil mixtures for the manufacture of soaps. Unsaponifiables can be beneficial to a soap formula because they may have properties such as moisturization, conditioning, antioxidants, texturing, etc. On the other hand, when the proportion of Unsaponifiable matter is too high (a guideline is more than 3 percent ), or the specific Unsaponifiable present does not provide significant benefits, a defective or inferior soap product can result.