Sugar Substitute Testing

Sugar Substitute Testing

Standardized, reliable workflows for analyzing sugar substitutes are critically important to food and beverage production and raw material testing. Waters are committed to supporting you in overcoming your analytical challenges, ensuring product quality, and safeguarding your brand reputation.

Standardized, reliable workflows for analyzing sugar substitutes are critically important to food and beverage production and raw material testing. Waters are committed to supporting you in overcoming your analytical challenges, ensuring product quality, and safeguarding your brand reputation.

Sports drinks in ice tub
Sports drinks in ice tub

Overview

As the demand for healthier food options grows, so does the need for accurate and consistent sugar substitute analysis. At Waters, we recognize the complex challenges faced by manufacturers, ingredient suppliers, and testing laboratories in this dynamic landscape. From identifying the right sweeteners to ensuring adherence to regulatory compliance, our expertise empowers you to effectively navigate the complexities of sugar substitutes.

Discover Waters solutions for reliable analysis of both artificial and novel sweeteners, including saccharin, aspartame, and steviol glycosides. Our commitment extends beyond ensuring accurate sugar analysis in food and beverages; our quality solutions also help testing laboratories to maintain standardization and consistency across different manufacturing facilities.


Applications

We understand the critical importance of fast and precise analysis of the content and ratios of common additives in soft drink production. Our comprehensive and user-friendly solutions help not only to ensure safety and reliability of your products but also to improve overall quality control of the production process.

We understand the critical importance of fast and precise analysis of the content and ratios of common additives in soft drink production. Our comprehensive and user-friendly solutions help not only to ensure safety and reliability of your products but also to improve overall quality control of the production process.


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Case Study: Ensuring Compositional Accuracy During Soft Drink Manufacturing

The Coca-Cola Bottling Company UNITED (CCBCU) QC laboratories are responsible for verifying the composition of in-process products, ensuring the “big 6” additives, including sugar substitutes acesulfame K, aspartame, and saccharin, are present in the specified concentrations. Read this case study to learn why Coca-Cola decided the ACQUITY UPLC H-Class System and Waters Beverage Analysis Kit matched their needs.

The Coca-Cola Bottling Company UNITED (CCBCU) QC laboratories are responsible for verifying the composition of in-process products, ensuring the “big 6” additives, including sugar substitutes acesulfame K, aspartame, and saccharin, are present in the specified concentrations. Read this case study to learn why Coca-Cola decided the ACQUITY UPLC H-Class System and Waters Beverage Analysis Kit matched their needs.


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Solutions


With Waters systems, characterize sugar substitutes in food and beverage product samples in less time and with greater confidence.

With Waters systems, characterize sugar substitutes in food and beverage product samples in less time and with greater confidence.

Highly reliable, low complexity, accurate routine analysis

Highly reliable, low complexity, accurate routine analysis

Rely on the Arc HPLC System for first time accurate results, high-efficiency separations, and quality data to meet your regulatory requirements with confidence.

  • Soft Drink Analysis
  • Artificial Sweeteners
  • Natural Sweeteners

A new era of intuitive simplicity

A new era of intuitive simplicity

Reduce human errors, HPLC system downtime, and generate consistent global method performance with the Alliance iS HPLC System to maximize the productivity and efficiency of your QC lab.

  • Soft Drink Analysis
  • Artificial Sweeteners
  • Natural Sweeteners

Performance that drives productivity

Performance that drives productivity

Improve the characterization of your most complex samples and decrease your time to result with the ACQUITY UPLC H-Class PLUS System.

  • Soft Drink Analysis
  • Artificial Sweeteners
  • Natural Sweeteners

See clearly and consistently, with confidence

See clearly and consistently, with confidence

Reduce non-specific adsorption from metal interactions in HPLC and UHPLC applications to get a full picture of your sample with the Arc Premier System.

  • Soft Drink Analysis
  • Artificial Sweeteners
  • Natural Sweeteners

Separate beyond question with the power of mass detection

Separate beyond question with the power of mass detection

Complementary to optical detection, the ACQUITY QDa II Mass Detector works in harmony with your chromatography to minimize the risk of unexpected components or co-elutions, and confirm trace sample constituents with confidence in a single workflow with single quadrupole mass detection.

  • Soft Drink Analysis
  • Artificial Sweeteners
  • Natural Sweeteners

Reliable, repeatable analysis of non-absorbing components

Reliable, repeatable analysis of non-absorbing components

Designed to provide scientists with the highest sensitivity, stability, and reproducibility, the 2414 Refractive Index (RI) Detector is the ideal solution for the analysis and quantification of components with limited or no UV absorption, such as alcohols, sugars, saccharides, fatty acids, and polymers.

  • Soft Drink Analysis
  • Artificial Sweeteners
  • Natural Sweeteners

Putting confidence in your detection strategy

Putting confidence in your detection strategy

The Waters 2424 Evaporative Light Scattering (ELS) Detector, with its compact and innovative design, offers near universal detection of non-volatile and semi-volatile sample components.

  • Soft Drink Analysis
  • Artificial Sweeteners
  • Natural Sweeteners


The data speaks for itself

The data speaks for itself
Optimized separation of soft drink additives with aspartame degradants on an Arc HPLC System Optimized separation of soft drink additives with aspartame degradants on an Arc HPLC System.
Comparison of separation efficiency of steviol glycosides obtained on XSelect Premier HSS T3 Column and on XSelect HSS T3 Column under the same experimental conditions Comparison of separation efficiency of steviol glycosides obtained on XSelect Premier HSS T3 Column and on XSelect HSS T3 Column under the same experimental conditions.
Separation of sugar alcohol and allulose (5 mg/mL) using the Atlantis Premier BEH Z-HILIC Column on an Arc HPLC System Separation of sugar alcohol and allulose (5 mg/mL) using the Atlantis Premier BEH Z-HILIC Column on an Arc HPLC System.
Comparable chromatographic performance in beverage standard analysis using ACQUITY UPLC H-Class PLUS System and ACQUITY UPLC H-Class System Comparable chromatographic performance in beverage standard analysis using ACQUITY UPLC H-Class PLUS System and ACQUITY UPLC H-Class System.

Webinars and Resources



  • eBook

Your Essential Guide to Sugar Analysis with Liquid Chromatography

Your Essential Guide to Sugar Analysis with Liquid Chromatography
  • eBook

Selecting a Liquid Chromatography Solution for Testing Sugars and Sweeteners in Beverages

Selecting a Liquid Chromatography Solution for Testing Sugars and Sweeteners in Beverages
  • Application Notebook

Food and Beverage Quality Control and Compositional Testing

Food and Beverage Quality Control and Compositional Testing
  • Case Study

Liquid Handling Automation System Streamlines Sample Preparation for Nutritional Analysis

Liquid Handling Automation System Streamlines Sample Preparation for Nutritional Analysis


Learn more about Sugar Substitute Testing.

Learn more about Sugar Substitute Testing.

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