Sugar Testing

Sugar Testing

Waters is committed to helping strengthen your brand reputation and building consumer trust by providing all the tools you need to uphold your product quality and integrity.

Waters is committed to helping strengthen your brand reputation and building consumer trust by providing all the tools you need to uphold your product quality and integrity.
Various kinds of sugar
Various kinds of sugar

Overview

Protecting brands with reliable workflows

Analyzing sugars in food and beverages is crucial not only for confirming product specifications and nutritional claims but also plays an essential role in complying with sugar tax regulations. It also protects consumers by ensuring products like lactose-free items genuinely contain no lactose, among other safety checks. Waters provides robust sugar testing solutions that enhance analytical accuracy, streamline workflows, and ensure product compliance with regulatory standards, helping confirm that products are authentic, and meet nutritional label claims.

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Applications

Achieve accurate and reliable sugar analysis with Waters chromatography and columns. Explore these application notes to discover how Waters solutions improve chromatographic efficiency and reduce operational costs.

Achieve accurate and reliable sugar analysis with Waters chromatography and columns. Explore these application notes to discover how Waters solutions improve chromatographic efficiency and reduce operational costs.

Application Notes

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eBook: Your Essential Guide to Sugar Analysis with Liquid Chromatography

Waters provides robust solutions for sugar analysis that enhance lab efficiency, ensure product consistency, and support new product development. We are committed to guiding you through your analytical journey with our expert technologies and services.

Waters provides robust solutions for sugar analysis that enhance lab efficiency, ensure product consistency, and support new product development. We are committed to guiding you through your analytical journey with our expert technologies and services.
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Solutions

Streamline your analysis and accelerate sample throughput with system solutions tailored to the needs of sugar testing labs.

Streamline your analysis and accelerate sample throughput with system solutions tailored to the needs of sugar testing labs.

Highly reliable, low complexity, accurate routine analysis for all

Highly reliable, low complexity, accurate routine analysis for all
Arc HPLC System

Easily replicate and improve the performance of your existing LC methods without compromising data quality with the Arc HPLC System and eliminate the burdens of older, less efficient LC systems.

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A new era of intuitive simplicity

A new era of intuitive simplicity
Alliance iS HPLC System

Reduce human errors, HPLC system downtime, enhance productivity and generate consistent method performance with the Alliance iS HPLC System for first-time right results.

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Performance that advances your lab

Performance that advances your lab
ACQUITY UPLC H-Class PLUS System

Get the flexibility of quaternary or binary solvent blending and decrease your time to result with the ACQUITY UPLC H-Class PLUS System to improve the characterization of your most complex samples.

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Reliable, repeatable analysis of non-absorbing components

Reliable, repeatable analysis of non-absorbing components
2414 Refractive Index (RI) Detector

Analyze and quantify components with limited or no UV absorption such as sugars, saccharides, and fatty acids with the 2414 RI Detector for the highest sensitivity, stability, and reproducibility.

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Press on to bring the power of mass detection to your lab

Press on to bring the power of mass detection to your lab
ACQUITY QDa Mass Detector

Minimize the risk of unexpected coelutions or components and confirm trace components with certainty with the ACQUITY QDa Mass Detector and enhance the analytical value of each analysis.

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Ensure your laboratory runs efficiently with Waters advanced software that provides quality and reliable results for increased productivity.

Ensure your laboratory runs efficiently with Waters advanced software that provides quality and reliable results for increased productivity.

Simplify data acquisition, processing, and reporting

Simplify data acquisition, processing, and reporting
Empower Chromatography Data System (CDS)

For advanced laboratory data management, including acquisition, processing, and reporting for liquid and gas chromatography instruments, equip your lab with the Empower Chromatography Data System (CDS).

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Take control of your laboratory workflow

Take control of your laboratory workflow
NuGenesis Lab Management System (LMS)

Document observations, control procedures, and exchange information with other software solutions with NuGenesis LMS, the analytical electronic laboratory notebook that helps you easily find and collaborate on your results.

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Effortlessly transition from laborious manual pipetting procedures to automated processes with Waters lab automation solutions.

Effortlessly transition from laborious manual pipetting procedures to automated processes with Waters lab automation solutions.

Automate the tedious to focus on the critical

Automate the tedious to focus on the critical
Andrew+ Pipetting Robot

Automate liquid handling with Waters Andrew+ Pipetting Robot with electronic pipettes and innovative labware holders. Add connected tools for processes like heating or labware transportation with Device+ for a full walk-away automation solution.

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Our reliable and robust columns and consumables can be easily integrated into your sugar testing workflows.

Our reliable and robust columns and consumables can be easily integrated into your sugar testing workflows.

Particle stability and performance for methods development

Particle stability and performance for methods development
XBridge Columns

XBridge HPLC and UHPLC Columns utilize Ethylene Bridged Hybrid (BEH) Particle Technology and are built to withstand high pH, high temperatures, and other extreme operating conditions like volatile eluents, for a wide range of small molecule and biomolecule LC-MS analysis.

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Increase speed, sensitivity, and resolution, without compromising data integrity

Increase speed, sensitivity, and resolution, without compromising data integrity
ACQUITY UPLC Columns

Meet all your method requirements and substantially reduce your analysis time and cost-per-sample with Waters ACQUITY UPLC Columns and improve your increased flow rate separation efficiency.

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Faster, cleaner, and simpler sample preparation starts here

Faster, cleaner, and simpler sample preparation starts here
Sample Preparation Products

Simplify sample preparation with Waters sample preparation solutions for quantitative analysis and deliver samples that are reproducible, yield high recovery, and are free of interferences.

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Achieve testing efficiencies and accurate results using streamlined Waters services and support.

Achieve testing efficiencies and accurate results using streamlined Waters services and support.

Your success is just a click away

Your success is just a click away
Waters Global Services

Optimize your laboratory's productivity and success with Waters Global Services to maintain peak system performance, minimize down time, address application challenges, and support stringent compliance requirements.

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Make science more accessible with Waters Capital

Make science more accessible with Waters Capital
Payment Solutions

Maximize resources and minimize risk with payment options from Waters Capital, including upgrading aging equipment, getting customized support, and bundling services into one monthly payment.

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The data speaks for itself

The data speaks for itself
Achieve shorter analysis time and reduced mobile phase consumption by using columns with smaller particles in shorter lengths, as demonstrated by the comparison of sugar standards (5 mg/mL) chromatograms from the two XBridge BEH Amide Columns on an Arc HPLC System with RI detection
Achieve shorter analysis time and reduced mobile phase consumption by using columns with smaller particles in shorter lengths, as demonstrated by the comparison of sugar standards (5 mg/mL) chromatograms from the two XBridge BEH Amide Columns on an Arc HPLC System with RI detection. The peak elution order is 1. fructose, 2. glucose, 3. sucrose, 4. maltose, and 5. lactose.
Effect of pH and temperature on peak shape of sugar standards (1 mg/mL) using an ACQUITY UPLC™ BEH Amide Column, 1.7 µm, 2.1 mm x 150 mm
Effect of pH and temperature on peak shape of sugar standards (1 mg/mL) using an ACQUITY UPLC BEH Amide Column, 1.7 µm, 2.1 mm x 150 mm. The peak elution order is 1. fructose, 2. glucose, 3. sucrose, 4. maltose, and 5. lactose.
Baseline separation of galactose and glucose using an XBridge BEH Amide XP Column on an ACQUITY Arc System with an ACQUITY QDa Detector, as shown by the SIR chromatograms of sugar standard mix solution and the internal reference standards
Baseline separation of galactose and glucose using an XBridge BEH Amide XP Column on an ACQUITY Arc System with an ACQUITY QDa Detector, as shown by the SIR chromatograms of sugar standard mix solution and the internal reference standards.
Separation of sugar alcohol and allulose (5 mg/mL) using the Atlantis Premier BEH Z-HILIC Column
Separation of sugar alcohol and allulose (5 mg/mL) using the Atlantis Premier BEH Z-HILIC Column.

Webinars and Resources

  • eBook

Selecting a Liquid Chromatography Solution for Beverage Sugar and Sweetener Testing

Selecting a Liquid Chromatography Solution for Beverage Sugar and Sweetener Testing
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  • Case Study

Ensuring Compositional Accuracy During Soft Drink Manufacturing

Ensuring Compositional Accuracy During Soft Drink Manufacturing
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  • Case Study

Liquid Handling Automation System Streamlines Sample Preparation for Nutritional Analysis

Liquid Handling Automation System Streamlines Sample Preparation for Nutritional Analysis
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  • Brochure

Chromatography Data System Solutions for the Food Industry

Chromatography Data System Solutions for the Food Industry
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  • On Demand Webinar

Accelerating Routine Food & Beverage Testing with Optimized Methods

Accelerating Routine Food & Beverage Testing with Optimized Methods
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Learn more about Sugar Testing Solutions.

Learn more about Sugar Testing Solutions.
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