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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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.
Reduce human errors, HPLC system downtime, enhance productivity and generate consistent method performance with the Alliance iS HPLC System for first-time right results.
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.
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.
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.
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. 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.
Separation of sugar alcohol and allulose (5 mg/mL) using the Atlantis Premier BEH Z-HILIC Column.
