LECO Solutions for Food and Beverage

LECO instruments analyse the quality, safety, and nutritional value of many foods and feeds – from raw foods to final consumer-ready products. Benefit from the advantages of our state-of-the-art solutions for your individual food analysis. Elevate your results and save your time.

Specific Advantages Including

  • Moisture Determination – Loss on drying automated up to 16 samples simultaneously
  • MOSH/MOAH Determination – Identify and quantify the source of contamination
  • Detection of Pesticides – Even in the most difficult matrices
  • Protein Determination after Dumas – Replacement of Kjeldahl; Results in ≈ 3 minutes fully matrix independent
  • Aroma Profiling – Identify what you smell, but never see

Instrument Portfolio for Food Analysis

Your Solution For Cost Effective Food Analysis
Check out our broad product portfolio for food safety, nutrition, and moisture analysis. Benefit from the advantages of our state-of-the-art solutions for your individual food analysis.

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Flavor Comparison of Indian Masalas

Characterizing and understanding specific chemicals associated with aroma and flavors in a complex sample, like masala, can be beneficial for a wide range of purposes in the food, flavor, and fragrance industry. Among other objectives, detailed chemical information can be used for quality control, process optimization, reverse engineering of desired aroma characteristics, and to better understand a product/sample of interest. This application note demonstrates an easy workflow using statistical tools, and how a single GCxGC-TOFMS method can uncover a broad chemical profile that may be relevant to many unanswered analytical questions.

Designed for Food and Beverage

828 Series

828 Series

LECO 828 Series: Macro Combustion Analysis for Carbon, Hydrogen, Nitrogen, and Protein Determination

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928 Series

928 Series

Marco Determination through Combustion

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Pegasus BTX

Pegasus BTX

High Sensitivity Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer for GC and GCxGC

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Pegasus BT

Pegasus BT GC-TOFMS

Benchtop GC Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer

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Pegasus BT 4D

Pegasus BT 4D

GCxGC Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer

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TGA801

TGA801

Thermogravimetric Analysis of Moisture, Ash, Volatile Content, and Loss-on-Ignition

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TGM800

TGM800

Thermogravimetric Moisture Determinator

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Application Notes

Learn more with our latest Food and Beverage application notes.

  • Flavor Comparison of Indian Masalas

    Characterizing and understanding specific chemicals associated with aroma and flavors in a complex sample, like masala, can be beneficial for a wide range of purposes in the food, flavor, and fragrance industry. Among other objectives, detailed chemical information can be used for quality control, process optimization, reverse engineering of desired aroma characteristics, and to better understand a product/sample of interest. This application note demonstrates an easy workflow using statistical tools, and how a single GCxGC-TOFMS method can uncover a broad chemical profile that may be relevant to many unanswered analytical questions.

  • Tracking the Chemical Profile of a Food Through the Spoilage Process with GCxGC and ChromaTOF Sync 2D

    In this work, we explore the process of food spoilage by tracking the degradation of tomatoes. While this is a specific look at a tomato, an understanding of general food deterioration is important as spoilage impacts the quality and safety of food products and has significant financial implications. Until a process like this is well understood, evaluating the chemical profile and the changes is generally a non-targeted discovery task. For food spoilage, many of the changes that occur will be reflected in the volatile and semi-volatile components of the sample. The aroma profile of the sample itself changes, and chemical markers of microbial activity are also likely to form. GC and TOFMS are well-established techniques for these types of non-targeted characterizations of volatile and semi-volatile analytes and are well-suited for this type of investigation.

  • Ginger Oil Analysis and Grade Differentiation with Pegasus BTX Using Hydrogen Carrier Gas

    Ginger Oil Analysis and Grade Differentiation with Pegasus BTX Using Hydrogen Carrier Gas

  • Determination of Nitrogen/Protein in Whey and Powdered Dairy Products

  • Enhanced Characterization and Comparison of Thyme Varieties from Different Geographical Origins`

    Pegasus BTX and ChromaTOF Sync Application Note - Thyme Varieties

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Videos

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  • Moisture Determination in Milk and Milk Products

    Moisture Content is a key parameter for all food and feed laboratories. It is needed for dry base calculations as well as for the general water content determination. In milk and milk products, the amount of total solids TS is an important parameter. Additionally, dairy products such as cheese require water content analysis for dry base calculations. This webinar gives an overview of automated thermogravimetry system, that analyzes simultaneously up to 16 samples for moisture content.

  • New Dimensions in Non-Targeted Screening of Complex Aroma Profiles

    Joining us from The Open University, UK, Dr. Geraint Huw Morgan, STEM Research Infrastructure Lead and Director of the Centre for Analytical Solutions, present an in-depth exploration of non-targeted screening techniques for complex aroma profiles. Drawing on his extensive experience in developing advanced methods for volatile organic compounds (VOCs), Dr. Morgan highlights innovative approaches and methodologies using advanced technologies like GCxGC-MS, and TOF-MS.

    Part of the 2024 Non-Target Screen Webinar Series

  • State of the Art Technology – Aroma, Flavour, and Fragrance

    We explore the capabilities of LECO technology and the impact it is having on overcoming the challenges faced in the Aroma, Flavor, and Fragrance industry.

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