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Metabolomics testing for food and dairy ingredients: see what standard assays miss

Nutrition panels and standard assays cover a small share of a food ingredient's chemistry. Most of it is still uncharacterized in public databases. Discovery metabolomics looks much further, across many compound classes, in one project.

A single platform sees only a fraction of an ingredient's bioactives. Three complementary workflows capture the depth and breadth of your ingredient, including secondary metabolites standard assays miss. Each bioactive is annotated to the health areas it is associated with in published research, with evidence levels.

You get a searchable molecular atlas, the bioactives with their evidence, a readout and an interactive dashboard with all the metadata, so your team can cross-validate and compare one supplier or process against another. 4–6 weeks from project start. Quantification is optional.

What we find:

  • Bioactives standard food assays don't report
  • Health-area annotation, such as gut and barrier health and immune modulation, with evidence levels
  • Differences between varieties, suppliers and processing conditions
Compounds funnel down into a ranked ladder of five molecules, strongest evidence first.

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