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What is AOAC standard?
Standards contains technical specifications and criteria designed to be used consistently. To develop standards, AOAC acts as a convener, bringing together experts to identify gaps in food safety testing and to create scientific standards that accurately and reliably fill those gaps.
What does the AOAC do?
It was founded in 1884 as the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists (AOAC) and became AOAC International in 1991. It publishes standardized, chemical analysis methods designed to increase confidence in the results of chemical and microbiological analyses.
What is the difference between ISO and AOAC?
In general, the ISO method extracted more phosphorus from triple and normal superphosphates; the AOAC method extracted more phosphorus from diammonium, monoammonium, and nitric phosphates. Both methods exhibited similar precision.
What is NSP in food?
Non-starch polysaccharides (NSP) constitute the main part of dietary fiber (DF). There are two kinds of NSP – insoluble and soluble. Most plant foods contain both types although proportions vary.
What foods contain NSP?
The NSP in wheat, maize, and rice are mainly insoluble and have a laxative effect, while those in oats, barley, rye, and beans are mainly soluble and have a cholesterol lowering effect. In vegetables the proportions of soluble to insoluble are roughly equal but vary in fruits.
What is NSP starch?
non‐starch polysaccharides (NSP) Those polysaccharides (complex carbohydrates), other than starches, found in foods. They are the major part of dietary fibre and can be measured more precisely than total dietary fibre; include cellulose, pectins, glucans, gums, mucilages, inulin, and chitin (and exclude lignin).
What is NSP fiber?
Dietary fibre is often referred to as non-starch polysaccharides (NSP) fibre or as AOAC fibre. NSP fibre only includes polysaccharides of the plant cell wall components characteristic of plant foods, such as wholegrain cereals, fruits and vegetables ( BNF website , FAO/WHO 2003 , pdf).