Cocoa and Chocolate

Products
From raw material to finished product.
Your laboratory partner.

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From a Gift of the Gods to Our Service for You
a Global Semiluxury Food • Testing according to the European
directive 2000/36/EC relating to cocoa
Due to its full-flavoured taste, cocoa has been
and chocolate products intended for
popular food for many years. As early as the
human consumption
time of the Aztecs it was considered to be of
multiple benefits: food of the gods, cure and • Labelling and marketability check
currency. These days cocoa is an important (national and international)
export product and the raw material for the
- Testing according to guidelines
chocolate production.
- Assorting as well as preparation of
value defining contents (share
According to estimates, cocoa beans contain determination, vermin etc.)
about 300 different substances. Most of them
are health enhancing, like the natural • Sensory testing e.g. simple descriptive
flavonoids, which help preventing test, investigation of profiles, adjustment
cardiovascular diseases. But most of all, this with current specifications within the scope
product is popular because of its delicious and of sensory quality assurance
incomparable flavour that refines many sweet • Analysis of residues and contaminants
dishes and cannot be renounced from the e.g. mycotoxins, organic and inorganic
sweet production line. contaminants, pesticides, heavy metals
• Allergens
Our Expertise • Analysis of ingredients like
Being an experienced and reliable partner for - Nutritional values
ensuring quality and security of your cocoa („Big 7“ according to regulation (EU)
goods, we help supervise the whole production No 1169/2011 and „Big 8“)
stages from raw ingredients to intermediates to
finished cocoa and chocolate products. - Theobromine, caffeine, vanillin, butyric
Moreover, our experts support you in labelling acid (milk fat)
checks and determination of nutritional values - Additives (e.g. preservatives,
in accordance with the requirements of antioxidants, sweeteners, steviol
regulation (EU) No. 1169/2011 on the provision glycosides, dyes, sugar substitutes)
of food information to consumers.
- Vitamins
- Minerals
Relevant Products
• Microbiology and hygiene testing
• Cocoa (beans, powder, butter, liquor) (e.g. hygiene-related bacteria, spoilage
• Chocolate microorganisms, pathogenic bacteria and
their toxins etc.)
• Filled chocolate
• Authenticity checks (e.g. vanilla, fruit
• Pralines flavour)
• Raw materials • and many other analyses
• and other products containing cocoa and
chocolate

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