Food Quality

Quality requirements for food

High-quality food should not only be visually and sensory appealing, but also be of constant quality. At the same time, production should be as resource-efficient as possible.

Analytical requirements

Effective monitoring and control of influencing factors requires flexible, needs-based analysis that can be particularly fast or particularly adaptable, depending on the area of application.

Applications

The most important areas of application include:

  • Flavorings in wine, chocolate, tea, and coffee production
  • Analysis of precursors and formation pathways, including the use of radioactively labeled compounds
  • Investigation of secondary plant compounds for beneficial utilization after raw material extraction
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Selected publications

Bücking, M., Göckener, B.
The radiokitchen: understanding chemical reactions during food processing
(2020) New Food, 23 (05), 74-76. Russell Publishing

Graf A., Hild O.R., Zeh G., Sauerwald T., Bücking M.,
Concept for a MEMS-based GC Chip as a Part of an Easy-to-Use Handheld System
MikroSystemTechnik Kongress 2023 - Mikroelektronik, Mikrosystemtechnik und ihre Anwendungen - Nachhaltigkeit und Technologiesouveranitat
, Proceedings
(2024) , pp. 536 - 540, VDE-Verlag, ISBN 978-380076204-0

Projects and information

Project »Pummel«

Development of a "point-of-use micro-multichannel gas chromatograph” for fast point-of-use detection of VOCs

Other projects

A wide range of projects on product protection and analytics by the partner institutes of the Fraunhofer Agriculture and Food Industry Alliance can be found on the Alliance's website.

Fraunhofer Agriculture and Food Industry Alliance

Read more about the research topics of the Fraunhofer Food Industry Alliance.