Description:
We have created easy, fast and portable test designed for testing fruit and fruit products rich in polyphenol content. Our test is fast (6 min), cheap (3$ per sample), easy and mobile. It designed to check polyphenols in fresh/frozen fruits/fruit products. You just put a drop of juice to the test paper, add reagent and interpret result by app in 6 min. It could be used regularly on every batch of products and raw material even before the purchase and production to confirm high level of polyphenols and other bioactive compounds. It could be a great marketing tool to show the quality of products to a final customer and to screen competitor products. It is designated for producers of functional/organic juices, smoothies, wines, concentrates, powders, extracts, lyophilized food, dietary supplements.
Polyphenols are a special type of antioxidants in dark fruits and berries which is good for cardiovascular system. That was confirmed by number of clinical studies. The high level of polyphenols in fruits/product mean that other bioactive compounds are present. Use of pesticides, bad storage conditions, etc decrease the polyphenol level up to 10 times. The problem is that fruit processing companies who produce healthy/super food check polyphenols in their final products once a year, because lab tests take 2-6 weeks and cost from €100/test. Thus, there are no polyphenols on product packages and their products are not distinguished among competitors. In August 2017 we filed a European patent application for our test no 17188048.7. Currently it is in process, we already have positive evaluation about patentability. We have good correlation ( above 0.8) of our test with laboratory results. After tests with 3 polish fruit processing companies, we have created our second prototype i.e. test for multisample testing. That speed up the process of the testing and have higher accuracy. Currently, we run laboratory tests of our prototype.