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Snacks

Snacks, including savory and sweet products, protein bars, and supplements, undergo constant reformulation to meet evolving consumer demands for taste, nutrition, and shelf-life. Analytical testing is essential to ensure consistency, support innovation, and meet regulatory requirements.  

Velp offers versatile solutions to analyze both traditional and reformulated snacks, supporting R&D, quality control, and labeling processes with accurate and user-friendly instruments.

We support public and private entities in: 

  • Protein determination with Kjeldahl and Dumas methods.
  • Crude and total fat analysis through solvent extraction.
  • Oxidation testing to evaluate stability, shelf-life, and formulation impact.
  • Dietary fiber determination for nutritional labeling.
  • Sample preparation for efficient homogenization and dispersion.

Application notes

Choose among a comprehensive library of Application Notes / White Papers and learn more on how to optimize the performance of your VELP instruments. These documents offer typical analyses of well-known samples, together with official references and suggestions, to make you an expert!
A Comparison of Lipid Contents in Different Types of Peanut Cultivars
Learn about the quality of different peanut cultivars in light of the increasing number of high-OA cultivars and other functional peanuts. The analyses performed with the OXITEST Oxidation Stability Reactor elucidate the lipid oxidation stability of 13 different cultivars.
Analytical Instruments
Oxidation Stability Reactor
CHNS Determination in nutraceutical products by flash combustion
The term nutraceutical is a combination of nutritional and pharmaceutical. This refers to constituents naturally present in foods and medicinal plants that are attributed to positive effects on human health and a preventive role for one or more diseases, only when proven by scientific evidence. That is why it is important to check the purity of nutraceutical ingredients and products throughout the process of CHNS analysis, also to maintain high product quality.
Analytical Instruments
Elemental analyzers
Nitrogen Determination in Sport Powder - Dumas/Combustion Method
Different sport powder products were chosen to demonstrate the suitability of the DUMAS method for Nitrogen/ Protein analysis by using Helium and Argon as carrier gas. Download the Apllication Note.
Analytical Instruments
Elemental analyzers
SER 158 Crude Fat Determination in Potato Chips
It is always more important to know the ingredients and amount of all the components, as fats, for different reasons, including nutritional purposes (labeling). Learn how to obtain excellent performance with SER Series and how to work in accordance with AOAC.
Analytical Instruments
Solvent Extraction
Total Dietary Fiber in Corn Flakes
Dietary fiber is not digested from human stomach and it represent a crucial nutrient in human diet for its ability to enhance satiety, to regulate intestinal functions and to modulate the nutrients absorption. Learn how to obtain excellent performance with GDE, CSF6 and Micro-Kjeldahl apparatus and how to work in accordance with AOAC 985.29.
Analytical Instruments
Dietary Fiber AnalyzersDigestion Units
Poster On OXITEST - Lipid Oxidation in Fried Potato Crisps
Download the poster entitled "Exploring Rancidity Assessment and Prediction", Leatherhead Food Research.
Analytical Instruments
Oxidation Stability Reactor