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WHY MEASURE INVERT SUGAR ? – BACKGROUND Inverted sugar syrup, also called invert syrup is essentially sugar in water. Invert sugar is a mixture of the monosaccharides glucose, and fructose, that is made by hydrolytic saccharification of the disaccharide sucrose. This mixture’s optical rotation is opposite to that of the original sugar, which is why […]
Changes to the European Pharmacopoeia Essential Oils regarding Optical Rotation Measurements / Polarimeter Measurements In April 2022 there is a change coming to the European Pharmacopoeia regarding the measurement of essential oils such as Sweet Orange Oil. The revised monograph requires that samples now need to be measured in a 0.1 dm (10mm) length cell […]