5. Assist With Quality Control
Measuring the color and turbidity of edible oil is essential for quality control. Slight color and haze variations can make a customer believe something is wrong with their product, even if the oil is fresh and clean. Color and turbidity measurements help with quality control by providing the data needed to optimize production processes like deodorizing, bleaching, and filtering. Reliable quality control methodologies lead to consistent color and appearance results and product output, which helps build consumer loyalty.
6. Save Time
Continuously monitoring color throughout production saves valuable time. Having to apply additional bleaching and blending methods can be time-consuming, slowing your operation's output. Color data from a reliable spectrophotometer can prove when these processes are not needed, saving production time and getting your edible oil to market faster.
7. Remove Subjectivity
Color interpretations vary from one person to another due to physical capability, age, gender, and even psychological factors like fatigue, beliefs, and desires. These factors make visual perception subjective. Spectrophotometers remove subjectivity by providing quantifiable data to express a product's color. Data is more reliable than the human eye and reduces color communication problems.
8. Comply With Industry Standards
Color measurements help edible oil manufacturers meet compliance standards. For example, the United States Department of Agriculture requires strict color measurement data if a company wishes to make health claims about a product.