Vitamin Analysis for Beverages

Protecting brands with standardized and reliable workflows

In order to comply with regulatory requirements, its essential to clearly label products, indicating any vitamins that have been added. Once a product has been formulated, rapid, reliable, and cost-effective laboratory methods need to be implemented in order to monitor the nutritional content and ensure that their label claims can be met.

Waters’ instrument and service solutions enable beverage testing laboratories to create efficient testing methods, supporting beverage manufacturers in:

Standardizing analysis for a range of complex water- and fat-soluble vitamins.
Minimizing overages of vitamins and other raw products.
Reducing the amount of methodologies required.
Quickly confirming nutritional value, vitamin specifications and label compliance.

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Reliable and Accurate Analysis

Common analytical procedures for vitamin analysis are often time-consuming and only target one compound. With an increase in different types of beverage products containing vitamins, beverage manufacturers recognize the need to employ procedures which allow for the analysis of multiple vitamins in a single analysis. Waters UPLC systems and columns provide the separation capabilities required to test for vitamins in efficient and reliable methods across a range of beverage products such as fortified dairy products, sports drinks and vitamin waters.

Cost Effective and Sustainable Testing

Ultra-Performance Convergence Chromatography (UPC²) allows for the streamlined testing of fat-soluble vitamins using a single procedure and technique. In comparison to normal phase and reversed phase chromatography the UPC² provides improvements in speed, reliability and resolution for vitamin testing. Leveraging carbon dioxide (CO₂) as the principle mobile phase, UPC² offers a more sustainable, greener and cost effective alternative for the routine testing of vitamins in beverages.

Flexible Detection Options

The 2998 PDA Detector is reliable, easy-to-use, and has enhanced software control, providing the flexibility required for routine analysis as well as definitive compound identification & co-elution detection. The use of different wavelengths provides excellent sensitivity and selectivity for vitamins in various beverage samples. Mass detection allows for the analysis of compounds which cannot be detected by UV due to an absence of a chromophore. The increased selectivity also achieved using mass detection provides greater confidence in compound identification due to a greater level of analyte discrimination. The ACQUITY QDa detector has a compact design allowing for easy integration with HPLC, UPLC or UPC² systems, increasing the flexibility of laboratories to analyze a greater number of vitamins in a single analytical method.

Converting Scientific Data into Useful Information

Empower 3 Software, our flagship chromatography data software (CDS), makes it easier than ever to run samples and produce meaningful results without experiencing downtime for training, re-engineering workflow, or adding new software to support instruments or advanced chromatographic techniques.

Award-Winning Application Support Accelerating Customer Success

Accelerate your time to results with our on-site application support for beverage testing. Waters has a team of application experts available to work with you and your team to ensure a successful solution setup as well as training the users through the entire analytical procedure, enabling your laboratory to analyse vitamins, confidently and seamlessly.

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