Highlighting coffee fraud

Coffee is one of the most widely traded commodities in the world, however, high-quality Arabica roast coffee can be adulterated with less expensive coffee types, such as robusta. That means coffee producers and buyers need a fast, accurate and cost-effective way to check the authenticity of every batch.

QIB Extra Ltd is a provider of strategic and applied research services, including this type of coffee analysis, to companies in the food, diet and health sectors. The arrival of benchtop Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) analysis has transformed how QIB Extra approaches this task. Previously, NMR was far too expensive for this type of routine analysis, however Oxford Instrument’s benchtop NMR spectrometer has changed the landscape.

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