Food Analysis (11:400:304)
Time & Place: 9:15 - 10:35 am at FS 109, T & F
Contact Information: Tel: (732)-932-7193. Email:qhuang@aesop.rutgers.edu
Office Hours
2:00 – 4:00 pm Wednesday, at Room 315C, FS Building
Text Book: Food Analysis, 3rd Edition, by S. S. Nielsen
Grading (Total 100%):
Home work & Lab reports 20% Quiz 15%
Mid-term 30% Final 35%
Lecture 1: Introduction 1/22/2008
Lecture 2: Evaluation of Analytical Data 1/26/2008
Lecture 3: pH and Titratable Acidity 1/29/2008
Lecture 4: pH Meter and Buffer capacity (1) 2/1/2008
Lecture 5: Buffer Capacity (2) 2/5/2008
Lab1: Determine Acid Content and pKa of Food Beverage 2/5/2008
Lecture 6: Basic Principles of Spectroscopy(1) 2/9/2008
Lecture 7: Introduction of UV Spectroscopy 2/12/2008
Lab 2: Determine Food Protein Concentration with UV Spectroscopy 2/12/2008
Lecture 8: UV Spectroscopy and Instrumentation 2/15/2008
Lecture 9: Fluorescence Spectroscopy (1) 2/19/2008
Lab 3: Fluorescence Spectroscopy demo 2/19/2008
Lab Report: please include the concept of fluorescence spectroscopy, and discuss the
potential of fluorescence spectroscopy for food applications.
Lecture : cancel 2/22/2008
Lecture : cancel 2/26/2008
Lecture 10: Fluorescence Spectroscopy (2) 2/29/2008
Lecture 11: Infrared (1) 3/4/2008
Lab 4: Determine chemical composition of your food samples using FTIR 3/4/2008
Requirements: Know how to correlate the major IR absorption bands to structure in your report.
Lecture 12: Infrared (2) 3/7/2008
Lecture 13: Rheological Principles for Food Analysis 3/11/2008
Lab 5: Determine Viscosities of Carbohydrate solutions 3/11/2008
Mid-term 3/14/2008
Spring Break
Lecture 14: Basic Principles of Chromatography (1) 3/25/2008
Lab 6: Separation of Food Colors using TLC 3/25/2008
Lecture 15: Basic Principles of Chromatography (2) 3/28/2008
Lecture 16: Basic Principles of Chromatography (3) 4/1/2008
Lecture 17: Basic Principles of Chromatography (4) 4/4/2008
Lecture 18: High Performance Liquid Chromatography 4/8/2008
Lab 7: Determine total polyphenol contents of green tea extract using HPLC 4/8/2008
Lecture 19: HPLC (2) 4/11/2008
Lecture 20: Gas Chromatography (1) 4/15/2008
Lab 8: Demo of Size Exclusion Chromatography 4/15/2008
Lecture 21: GC (2) 4/18/2008
Lecture 22: Mass Spectrometry 4/22/2008
Lab 9: Demo of GC and GC-MS 4/22/2008
Lecture 23: Thermal Analysis 4/25/2008
Lecture 24: Particle Size Analyzer 4/29/2008
Lecture 25: Review for Final Exam 5/2/2008
Final Exam (start from 9:15 am) 5/6/2008