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[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