Monday, 4 October 2010

How to Determine Carbohydrates Content In Edible Bird's Nest

How to Determine The carbohydrates content of raw cleaned bird's nest?

The carbohydrate content of edible bird's nest was determined by difference method adapted from James (1995). This involved obtaining the available carbohydrate content by calculation having estimated all the other fractions by proximate analysis, then by applying the formula:

% Available carbohydrates = 100 – (%moisture + %ash + %fat + %protein + %fibre)

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