HOW TO FIND CRUDE FIBRE IN FOOD PRODUCT
REAGENTS
1. Dilute sulphuric acid - 1.25 % m/v, accurately prepared
2. Sodium hydroxide solution - 1.25 % m/v.
accurately prepared
1. Electric air Oven
2. Thimble
3. Soxhlet apparatus
4. Reflux condenser
5. Gooch crucible
6. Muffle furnace
PROCEDURE
1. Dry to constant mass about 5 g of the
material in an electric air oven at 105 to 110 deg C. Weigh accurately about 2.5 g of the dried
material into a thimble and extract for about one hour with petroleum ether,
using a soxhlet apparatus.
2. Transfer the fat-free material to a
one-litre flask.
3. Take 200 ml of dilute sulphuric acid in
a beaker and bring to boil. Transfer fat-free material and immediately connect
the flask with a reflux water condenser and heat, so that the contents of the
flask begin to boil within one minute.
4. Rotate the flask frequently, taking
care to keep the material from remaining on the sides of the flask out of
contact with the acid. Continue boiling for exactly 30 minutes.
5. Remove the flask and filter through
fine linen and silk cloth (75 micron) held in a funnel, and wash with boiling
water until the washings are no longer acid to litmus.
6. Bring to boil some quantity of sodium
hydroxide solution under a reflux condenser.
7. Wash the residue on the linen into the
flask with 200 ml of the boiling sodium hydroxide solution. Immediately connect
the flask with the reflux condenser and boil for exactly 30 minutes Remove the
flask and immediately filter through the filtering cloth.
8. Thoroughly wash the residue with
boiling water and transfer to a Gooch crucible prepared with a thin but compact
layer of ignited asbestos
9. Wash the residue thoroughly first with
hot water and then with about 15 ml of ethyl alcohol, 95 % by volume.
10. Dry the Gooch crucible and contents at
105 - 110 deg C in an air - oven to constant mass. Cool and weigh
11. Incinerate the contents of the Gooch
crucible in an electric muffle furnace at 600 ± 20 deg C until all the carbonaceous
matter is burnt. Cool the Gooch crucible containing the ash in a dessicator and
weigh.
Calculation
Crude
fibre (on dry basis) % by mass =
100
(M1 - M2)
M
Where,
M1 = Mass in gm of Gooch
crucible and contents before ashing
M2 = Mass in gm of Gooch
crucible containing asbestos and ash, and
M = Mass in gm of the dried material taken for
the test
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