This document discusses various instruments used for measuring color in food industries, including benchtop spectrophotometers, portable spectrophotometers, on-line spectrophotometers, color readers, and color measurement software. It provides examples of how color is measured for different food types like beverages, cereals, fruits, baked goods, ingredients, meats, sauces, dressings and snack foods. The document emphasizes that color is an important factor in food quality control and a driver of consumer purchasing decisions.
4. INSTRUMENTS
BENCHTOP SPECTROPHOTOMETERS AND COLORIMETERS:
โข The product is larger or small, liquid or solid, powder or
flake, smooth textured.
โข Greater flexibility when measuring the sample.
โข Well suited for research and process control applications.
โข There 10 different tyres of BSC.
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6. TEN TYPES OF BSC
โข Colour EX
โข Colour EZ Citrus
โข Colour EZ Coffee
โข Colour EZ Tomato
โข Colour XE
โข ColourQuest XE
โข ColourQuest XT
โข D25 NC
โข LabScan XE
โข UltraScan PRO
โข UltraScan VIS
7. PORTABLE SPECTROPHOTOMETERS
โข Laboratory performance
โข Light weight
โข Take any where design
โข Sophisticated dual beam technology
โข Sample measurement are taken in seconds.
โข There are four different instruments i.e MiniScan EZ 4500L,
MiniSCAN EZ 4500S, MiniSCAN EZ 4000L, MiniScan 4000S
8. ON-LINE SPECTROPHOTOMETER
โข It make a real time measurement of the product without
contact or intrusion
โข It referred as at-line in-line and near line spectrophotometer.
โข From the beginning to end, production runs can be
continuously monitored to identify the variation and out-of-
spec-product.
9. COLOUR MEASUREMENT SOFTWARE
โข UNPRECEDENTED flexibility to process, display, analyse and
report colour measurement
โข Analysis software reports absolute colour difference data
โข Various lighting and observing conditions
10. COLOUR READER
โข Battery operated
โข Simple and easy to use
โข Simple and fast control of whiteness and yellowness
โข Portable, light weight, compact design, data processing and
display selection.
โข Used in food ( powders and pastes), Dairy product, flour
mills
13. BAKED GOODS COLOUR METERS
โข Colours can create a memorable and lasting impression
โข The colour of loaf is golden brown allure
โข Manage the colour of their products to meet the quality
standards of their demanding consumers
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15. BEVERAGE COLOUR ANALYZER
โข Major brand owners know the importance that colour consistency
and colour appearance play in a consumerโs decision to purchase.
โข Three forms of liquid is available in the market.
20. CEREAL COLOUR MEASUREMENT
โข It can be broken into two primary groups:
โcerealโ as a finished product
grains or raw materials cereal ingredient
27. INGREDIENT COLOUR ANALYZER
โข Ingredients play a key role in the development of food, with unique
flavour and texture and influence the final food product.
28. MEAT COLOUR MEASUREMENT
โข Colour of the meats determining the freshness and quality of the
meat in the grocery store or butcher shop.
29. SAUCES AND DRESSINGS OF COLOURE
MEASUREMENT
โข Mixture of ingredients specifically blended to enhance the flavours of
any dish and to create appealing visual colour characteristics.
โข Typically opaque liquids in form and their colours are designed to
entice consumers to choose one brand over another