Food Composition & Nutritional Analysis

Understanding the nutritional and chemical composition of your food is essential for product development, quality control, nutritional labelling and market requirements.

Mérieux NutriSciences AQ supports food manufacturers, importers, retailers, food-service businesses and brands with comprehensive analytical testing—from basic nutritional composition to vitamins, minerals, fatty acids, sugars and specialised nutrients.

Analytical Confidence Behind Every Nutrition Label

Verify Your Product. Strengthen Your Data.


Reliable nutritional and composition testing helps verify declared nutrient values, support nutrition labelling and product claims, and monitor consistency against your specifications.
From protein, fats and sugars to vitamins, minerals, fatty acids and specialised nutrients, Mérieux NutriSciences AQ provides analytical data to support product development, reformulation, quality control and market requirements.
Our Singapore team works with food and beverage manufacturers, importers and brands across a wide range of product matrices and testing needs.

Nutritional Analysis Across Food & Beverage Categories

Packaged Foods
Cocoa and Chocolates
Dairy and Infant Formula
HORECA
Beverages
Confectionary

Our Nutritional Testing Capabilities

Our nutritional and composition testing services provide reliable analytical data across a wide range of food and beverage matrices. From routine nutrition parameters to specialised nutrient analysis, our laboratories support product verification, quality control, labelling, formulation and market requirements with methods suited to your product and testing objectives.

Understand the fundamental composition of your product. Our laboratories can analyse the core nutritional parameters commonly used for product specifications and nutritional information. Testing can include:

  • Energy
  • Protein
  • Total fat
  • Saturated fat
  • Carbohydrates
  • Total sugars
  • Dietary fibre
  • Moisture
  • Ash
  • Total solids
  • Salt / sodium


Depending on your product and requirements, testing can include:

  • Total fat
  • Saturated fat
  • Monounsaturated fats
  • Polyunsaturated fats
  • Trans fatty acids
  • Omega-3 fatty acids
  • Omega-6 fatty acids
  • Cholesterol
  • Free fatty acids
  • Fatty-acid profiles


Testing can support:

  • Total carbohydrates
  • Total sugars
  • Individual sugar profiles
  • Total dietary fibre
  • Crude fibre
  • Sugar alcohols / polyols
  • Specialised fibres where relevant

Testing can include a wide range of water- and fat-soluble vitamins, such as:

  • Vitamin A
  • Vitamin B group
  • Vitamin C
  • Vitamin D
  • Vitamin E
  • Vitamin K

Mineral analysis can include:

  • Calcium
  • Iron
  • Magnesium
  • Zinc
  • Potassium
  • Phosphorus
  • Iodine
  • Selenium
  • Copper
  • Manganese
  • Other relevant elements

Testing can support:

  • Total protein
  • Amino-acid profiles
  • Product-specific protein parameters
  • Dairy-specific protein fractions where relevant

Composition testing can extend beyond nutrition information to important product-specific parameters.
Depending on the food matrix, testing can include:

  • pH
  • Titratable acidity
  • Water activity
  • Specific gravity
  • Viscosity
  • Peroxide value
  • Free fatty acids
  • Caffeine
  • Organic acids
  • Preservatives and additives
  • Product-specific quality indicators

Nutri-Grade Testing for Beverages in Singapore

For beverages sold in Singapore, Nutri-Grade classification is based primarily on sugar and saturated fat content. Mérieux NutriSciences AQ can provide analytical testing for these key parameters, along with the required nutrition information such as energy, protein, carbohydrate, total sugar, fat and saturated fat.

Know What’s in Your Product. Communicate It With Confidence.

From routine nutrition panels to specialised composition testing, our Singapore team can help you select an analytical programme suited to your product and market requirements.

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