Grains & Oilseeds
Analysis of Grains & Oilseeds
Fertile soils all over the world produce a rich treasure of different commodities like cereals and oilseeds. Bruker provides precise and robust analysis for use in the lab or production to collect essential data at different production stages for farmers, processors, and breeders.
The analysis of grains and oilseeds plays a major role in ensuring the best quality of food as well as of agricultural products. Near Infrared spectroscopy (FT-NIR) offers solutions for oil producers as well as for breeders. Our systems for lab and online use enable a compositional analysis in a wide range of applications:
- Seed & grain reception
- Plant breeding
- Single seed analysis
- Animal nutrition
Elemental Analysis of Grains & Oils
Ensuring the purity of grains and edible oils is critical for food safety and compliance. With XRF-based elemental analysis, contaminants can be quickly detected, even at trace levels, and nutritional content can be quantified.
Bruker provides a full range of XRF solutions: from desktop and floor-standing XRF systems for advanced analytics, to handheld and portable XRF devices for fast, flexible screening at the production line or point of entry.
Screening Grains for Heavy Metal Contamination
Heavy metal contamination in grains, such as arsenic in rice or lead in cereals ,poses serious health risks and is strictly regulated worldwide. XRF is a fast, nondestructive method to screen grains for toxic elements, delivering accurate results without complex sample preparation. Typical targets include arsenic (As), cadmium (Cd), lead (Pb), and mercury (Hg).
Bruker’s Elemental Analyzer portfolio includes:
- ED-XRF and WD-XRF systems for comprehensive laboratory analysis
- Point-and-shoot handheld XRF for rapid checks at the production line or point of entry
- Micro-XRF spectrometers for detailed mapping of elemental distribution
- TXRF spectrometers for ultra-trace analysis when the highest sensitivity is required.
Compositional Analysis of Edible Oils and Biofuels
The fast, reliable elemental analysis for edible oil and biofuel refineries is made easy with the S2 POLAR. Using polarized EDXRF, key elements such as phosphorus (P), sulfur (S), and chlorine (Cl) are monitored to ensure proper process control and compliance with global standards.
Total phosphorus measurement helps track phospholipid removal, while key elements such as potassium (K), calcium (Ca), iron (Fe), nickel (Ni), and copper (Cu) can be quantified in one fast measurement.
Oil & Moisture Analysis
TD-NMR combines rapid, simultaneous analysis of oil and moisture, with easy sample preparation (no grinding) and simple calibration. High accuracy and reproducibility, about 2 to 3-fold better than wet chemistry or competing technologies. Oil and moisture in seeds are analyzed according to international standard methods. No dependency on color, surface, and penetration depth.
