Instrumental colour measurement of butter

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butter, colour measurement, colour recognition
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1. Jan 2020

The task

The consistency of butter does not allow it to be simply placed on an aperture for colour measurement, as this would contaminate the sensitive measuring device. For this reason, it is often laboriously coated in measuring cuvettes for colour measurement, which have to be laboriously cleaned again after the measurement.

The solution

For colour measurement, HunterLab recommends simply placing a block of butter with a pre-cut transparent carrier film on the aperture of the ColorFlex EZ spectrophotometer.

The measurement is very simple:

Place foil on butter
Place the butter with the foil side on the measuring aperture
Trigger measurement at the touch of a button
Read off values

The ColorFlex EZ:

The circumferential measuring geometry of 45°/0° measures colour as you see it with the eye
Small and compact, the ColorFlex EZ requires very little space in the laboratory
Optional EasyMatch QC quality control software for the PC
A connection to a printer or a PC can be easily established via suitable interfaces

Talk to us, we will be happy to advise you!

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