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Fruit lab

The Fruit Lab performs quality analyses on fruit, berries and vegetables. We provide analyses where we measure colour, firmness, antioxidant and vitamin C content, among other things.

Bilde av Fruktlabbygningen

Contact info:

E-mail: oskar.schnedler.bjora@nmbu.no

Phone: 92 68 23 28

Address

Opening hours

  • Monday - Friday:
  • 15. September - 14. May: 08:00-15:45
    • 15. May - 14. September: 08:00-15:00

Fruktlaben is located at the top of Åsbakken, inside the red house in Kirkeveien 8. At the lab, we specialise in delivering analyses on the quality of fruit, berry and vegetable products, as well as other plant products.

  • Fruktlaben is one of NMBU's rental locations, and follows NMBU's rental location model.
    Please contact us for price estimates.

  • We have HPLC systems, high-tech spectrophotometry (KoneLab), O2/CO2 measurement tools and more for a wide range of analyses. We perform analyses for NMBU, external actors and for teaching in plant and food science.

    Traditional analyses:

    • Sugar content
    • Acid content
    • Colour measurements
      • -Juice
      • -Product
    • Gas exchange measurements
    • Dry matter

    Other analyses:

    • FRAP
    • Phenol content
    • Anthocyanins
    • Vitamin C
    • Hot water treatment
    • Firmness measurement
    • Starch
    Bilde av konelab

    KoneLab for measuring antioxidants, total phenols, anthocyanins etc.

    HPLC-system til måling av blant annet C-vitamin.

    HPLC-system for measuring vitamin C, among other things.

    CheckMate3 til måling av gassutveksling (O2/CO2)

    CheckMate3 for measuring gas exchange (O2/CO2)

Employees

Adsress:

Visiting address : Kirkeveien 8, 1430 Ås Phone: 92 68 23 28