Rice Analysis Service
What's rice analysis?
Rice is a perishable food. To secure tasty rice, rice analysis is performed at Satake.
Analysis turnaround time
Within 7 business days after receiving samples
Acceptable samples
Brown rice, milled rice, and rinse-free rice
Required quantities of grain
More than 500g
Details of analysis service
| Moisture | Standard Moisture Meter: PB-1D3 (Kett), Infrared Moisture Meter: FD-610 (Kett) |
|---|---|
| Whiteness | Whiteness Milling Meter: MM1D (Satake), Whiteness meter: C-600 (Kett) |
| Turbidity | Turbidity Meter: M-204 (Noda tsushin) |
| Broken grains | Testing Rice Grader: TRG05B (Satake) |
| Dimensional weight |
Dimensional weight Weigh to volume balance |
| Internal cracked grains | Grain Scope: TX-200 (Satake) |
| Cracked rice during soak |
Cracked rice during soak may cause discharge of starch and bad texture after cooking. |
| % of rice with remained germ |
2g of sample is visually analyzed and the percentage of rice with remained germ is calculated. |
| Other varieties of grains |
20g x 5 sets are visually classified and the percentage of other grains in 100g is calculated. |
Optional analysis
| Freshness | Freshness Freshness Meter: RFDM1B (Satake) * |
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| Grain appearance | Grain appearance Rice Inspection Equipment: RGQI90A (Satake) * |
| Protein composition analysis | SDS Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis |
| Microbe analysis |
Viable bacterium, thermally resistant bacterium, fungus, coliform group, bacillus cereus, Staphylococcus aureus etc. are analyzed. |
*…Short grain only