[Alt Text] White small box containing a food component test kit. Test kit surrounded by a variety of foods, including wine, grapes, oranges, cheese, sausage, fruit pits, honey, chocolate, nuts, and an egg.
Text on test kit reads:
lebensmittelanalytik boehringer mannheim
L-Glutaminsaure
L-Glutamic acid
Far-Test color method
35 tests 15264
food analysis boehringer mannheim
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##Specificity
##Accuracy
##Simplicity
##Speed
## Quantitative Analysis of Food Components by Enzymatic Methods
Boehringer Mannheim Biochemicals offers convenient test kits and/or individual reagents for the determination of:
Acetic Acid
Ascorbic Acid
L-Aspartic Acid
Cholesterol
Citric Acid
Creatine
Ethanol
F-Gluconic Acid
Glucose/Fructose
L-Glutamic Acid
Glycerol
Guanosine-5’-Monophosphate
Isocitric Acid
L-Lactic Acid
Lactose/Galactose
L-Malic Acid
Maltose
Pyrophosphate/Phosphate
Pyruvic Acid
Raffinose
D-Sorbitol
Starch
Succinic Acid
Sucrose/Glucose
Technical information and complete assay procedures have been assembled in our publication “Methods of Enzymatic Food Analysis”. Write for your copy.
Boehringer Mannheim Biochemicals
7941 Castleway Drive
Indianapolis, Indiana 46250
Tel. (317) 849-9350
(800) 428-5433 toll free
Notes: This advertisements promots a food analysis test kit rather than a specific processing agent. The advertisement reveals that as processing agents grew rapidly, food manufacturers wanted a way to monitor what was present in their products, perhaps so that they could note it on their ingredient lists. This advertisement reveals that within the food industry, there was a market for accurate, easy-to-use diagnostic tests.
Boehringer was a German company that specialized in diagnostic technology. In the 1990s, Roche purchased Boehringer. Read more about Boehringer here:
Fischer, E. P. Selling Science: The History of Boehringer Mannheim; Boehringer Mannheim GmbH: Mannheim, Germany, 1992
