Food Science & Technology Laboratory

The laboratory also provides consultation, responds to specialized requests, and designs customized tests as required. The laboratory uses highly automated spectrophotometric, chromatographic, and electrochemical techniques to determine nutrients and other constituents.

Area: 735 sq. fit

Student capacity: Above 35

Air Conditioning System is available.

Instrumentation:

Name of Instrument	Used for identification
Refractometer	for measuring the concentrations of general purpose sugars in foods.
Moisture Meter,	Used for moisture determination
UV-Spectroscopy	Used for the quantitative determination of different analytes, such as transition metal ions, highly conjugated organic compounds, and biological macromolecules.
GC	GC include testing the purity of a particular substance, or separating the different components of a mixture.
Automated Soxhlet Extractors	Used for extraction
TLC	Used for determining of the number components, identity, purity of compound.