The application of different methods for the determination of fat content in selected animal - origin products
The aim of the study was to assess the fat content in selected animal-origin products (ie. black pudding, luncheon, wiener, bacon) as well as certified reference material (MUVA RM700 Boiled Sausage) using two analytical methods. One of them was the fat extraction using a Soxhlet technique, and the other one - the extraction using carbon dioxide in supercritical state. Methods based on Soxhlet extraction have been and are at present used as reference. This conventional method is cheap and accurate, and this is why it has been the most used extraction technique worldwide for a number of decades. On the other hand some modern methods of fat determination are needed. Supercritical Fluid Extraction is quick, safe, and it eliminates any hazardous chemicals or solvents used in traditional extraction methods. For this purpose we used TFE 2000 fat analyzer (LECO Corporation). For the methods used the following validation parameters were determined: accuracy, precision, intermediate precision, correctness. The fat content in black pudding and luncheon meat ranged from 11.5 ? 4.5 g/100g (TFE) to 12.1 ? 0.0 g/100g (Soxhlet) and from 13.2 ? 0.5 g/100g (Soxhlet) to 13.8 ? 0.7 g/100g (TFE), respectively. For wiener samples we received values between 15.7 ? 0.4 g/100g (TFE) to 17.8 ? 0.1 g/100g (Soxhlet). The fat content in bacon samples ranged from 48.2 ? 2.5 g/100g (TFE) to 48.7 ? 0.7 g/100g (Soxhlet). The results received remain consistent with the values given in the Polish ?Food Composition Tables?. The application of the methods described above for the determination of fat content in animal - derived products is dependent ie.: on the purpose of analysis, the amount of fat in food product sample and the time for receiving the results.