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Nutritional Composition and Digestibility Lab - Equipment

Our facility is based at the analytical suite of North Lab, in Sutton Bonington, with other facilities at the Sir Peter Manfield's Imaging Centre based across our other campuses in Nottingham.

Nutritional Composition and Digestibility Lab is equiped with a range of equipment to help reseatchers analyse critical nutrients and micro-nutrient consitituents including total protein, amino acids, lipids, fatty acids, and more.

In addition, our platform leaders also have direct access to a wide range of equipment and resources in engineering, food science and nutrition. Including a Soxhlet lipid extraction, nitrogen analyser, and a bomb calorimeter.

 

 

 

Explore our equipment

You can expand the titles shown below to read more about our kits available for human protein digestibility and nutritional analysis.  The list below covers equipment in our Sutton Bonington facilities. To view equipment available for :

  • In vivo human protein digestion using MRI approaches, visit the SPMIC website
  • All other equipment scroll below 

 

 

  1. High resolution LC Q-TOF with UHPLC front end 

State of the art system capable of targeted quantitation, wide range screening, and untargeted metabolomics. Samples are separated via a suitable chromatographic method, ionised via (+) or (-) ESI, then separated on the basis of mass to charge ratio via the TOF mass analyser. A Quadrupole mass analyser allows for the isolation and subsequent fragmentation of unknowns, which can be annotated using exact mass and fragmentation patterns via Sirius software.

 
  1. High sensitivity LC QQQ with UHPLC front end

This system is capable of high sensitivity quantitation of non-volatile targets in a range of complex matrices. This system uses an identical UHPLC front end as our LC Q-TOF, making for easy transfer of chromatographic methods between the two systems.

 
  1. Cryomill
This system uses full immersion in liquid nitrogen to embrittle even the hardest samples. A steel rod is propelled between electromagnets to reduce the sample to a fine powder, without incurring friction induced heat damage. Typical sample weights can range from 1-25g. Wet samples typically require freeze drying before this milling process is applied, to prevent stickiness on thawing
 
Bead mill 
This unit uses ceramic bead media to homogenise samples in both wet and dry modes. Uses standard 1.5 ml micro centrifuge tubes for low frequency milling, or 2ml milling tubes for higher intensity milling.
 
SPE manifold 

Compatible with a wide range of solid phase extraction cartridges, this system can be used to retain target analytes whilst allowing interfering compounds to be washed to waste

 
Nitrogen blow-down concentrator 

This system enables the removal of organic solvents at atmospheric pressure, under a stream of nitrogen gas

 
Centrifugal evaporator 
This system enables the removal of solvent mixtures, under vacuum, without bumping. Compatible with well plates, as well as 1.5 and 15 ml centrifuge tubes
 
Freeze dryer 
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Bomb calorimeter 
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Nitrogen analyser (protein)
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Soxhlet lipid extractor 
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