Nutritional analysis of food (EU 1169/2011) (BIG 8 - including dietary fiber)

The nutrition declaration should appear on the label of most packaged foodstuffs. Food Information Regulation (EU) 1169/2011 defines what information must appear on the label.

In the nutritional analysis package, the following parameters will be determined:

• Moisture

• Ash

• Total fat (solvent extraction following acid hydrolysis)

• Fatty acid composition (including sum parameter for saturated fat, more detailed parameter list available upon request)

• Protein (Kjeldahl method)

• Sugar profile (HPAEC-PAD method) including fructose, glucose, lactose, maltose, sucrose

• Dietary fiber (high molecular weight dietary fibre, method based on AOAC 991.43)

• Sodium (Na) (ICP-OES method)

• NaCl calculated from sodium (Na)

• Calculated carbohydrate and energy content

The used methods are suspect to change depending the food matrix. Accreditation of test methods might vary depending the food matrix. For the dietary fiber, methods to include soluble dietary fibre are also available, such as methods based on AOAC 2017.16.