{"id":340754,"date":"2025-01-29T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hunterlab.de\/instrumental-color-measurement-of-hardened-vegetable-fat\/"},"modified":"2025-02-27T15:00:59","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T14:00:59","slug":"colour-measurement-of-solid-vegetable-fat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hunterlab.eu\/en\/colour-measurement-of-solid-vegetable-fat\/","title":{"rendered":"Colour measurement of solid vegetable fat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#x201D;1&#x2033; _builder_version=&#x201D;4.16&#x2033; global_colours_info=&#x201D;{}&#x201D; theme_builder_area=&#x201D;post_content&#x201D;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#x201D;4.16&#x2033; background_size=&#x201D;initial&#x201D; background_position=&#x201D;top_left&#x201D; background_repeat=&#x201D;repeat&#x201D; locked=&#x201D;off&#x201D; global_colours_info=&#x201D;{}&#x201D; theme_builder_area=&#x201D;post_content&#x201D;][et_pb_column type=&#x201D;4_4&#x2033; _builder_version=&#x201D;4.16&#x2033; custom_padding=&#x201D;|||&#x201D; global_colours_info=&#x201D;{}&#x201D; custom_padding__hover=&#x201D;|||&#x201D; theme_builder_area=&#x201D;post_content&#x201D;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#x201D;4.27.4&#x2033; text_font_size=&#x201D;18px&#x201D; header_3_font=&#x201D;||||||||&#x201D; background_size=&#x201D;initial&#x201D; background_position=&#x201D;top_left&#x201D; background_repeat=&#x201D;repeat&#x201D; global_colours_info=&#x201D;{}&#x201D; theme_builder_area=&#x201D;post_content&#x201D;]<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-279902 alignleft size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/hunterlab.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/HunterLab-Farbmessung-Lebensmittel-Margarine-1920w-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Margarine and solid fats\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\"\/>The task: The consistency of margarine and other vegetable fats does not allow them to be simply placed directly on the port for <a class=\"glossaryLink cmtt_Colorimetry\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hunterlab.eu\/en\/glossar\/colour-measurement\/\" data-mobile-support=\"0\" data-gt-translate-attributes='[{\"attribute\":\"data-cmtooltip\", \"format\":\"html\"}]' tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\">colour measurement<\/a>, as their consistency is not 100% solid, but rather pasty or spreadable. For this reason, it is sometimes laboriously spread into sample cups for <a class=\"glossaryLink cmtt_Colorimetry\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hunterlab.eu\/en\/glossar\/colour-measurement\/\" data-mobile-support=\"0\" data-gt-translate-attributes='[{\"attribute\":\"data-cmtooltip\", \"format\":\"html\"}]' tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\">colour measurement<\/a>, which have to be laboriously cleaned again after the measurement. This type of sample handling is complicated, time-consuming and easy to avoid with the new <a href=\"https:\/\/hunterlab.co.uk\/products\/spectrophotometers\/colorflex-l2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ColorFlex L2<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The solution<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To measure the <a class=\"glossaryLink cmtt_Colorimetry\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hunterlab.eu\/en\/glossar\/colour\/\" data-mobile-support=\"0\" data-gt-translate-attributes='[{\"attribute\":\"data-cmtooltip\", \"format\":\"html\"}]' tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\">colour<\/a> of a margarine block, HunterLab recommends either placing a pre-cut transparent carrier film on the aperture of the <a class=\"glossaryLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hunterlab.eu\/en\/glossar\/spectrophotometer\/\" data-mobile-support=\"0\" data-gt-translate-attributes='[{\"attribute\":\"data-cmtooltip\", \"format\":\"html\"}]' tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\">spectrophotometer<\/a> or using a Petri dish.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#x201D;4.16&#x2033; 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For this reason, it is often laboriously coated in sample cups for <a class=\"glossaryLink cmtt_Colorimetry\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hunterlab.eu\/en\/glossar\/colour-measurement\/\" data-mobile-support=\"0\" data-gt-translate-attributes='[{\"attribute\":\"data-cmtooltip\", \"format\":\"html\"}]' tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\">colour measurement<\/a>, which have to be laboriously cleaned again after the measurement. <\/p>\n<p>The solution<\/p>\n<p>For <a class=\"glossaryLink cmtt_Colorimetry\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hunterlab.eu\/en\/glossar\/colour-measurement\/\" data-mobile-support=\"0\" data-gt-translate-attributes='[{\"attribute\":\"data-cmtooltip\", \"format\":\"html\"}]' tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\">colour measurement<\/a>, HunterLab recommends simply placing a margarine block with a pre-cut transparent carrier film or a petri-dish on the aperture of the ColorFlex L2 <a class=\"glossaryLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hunterlab.eu\/en\/glossar\/spectrophotometer\/\" data-mobile-support=\"0\" data-gt-translate-attributes='[{\"attribute\":\"data-cmtooltip\", \"format\":\"html\"}]' tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\">spectrophotometer<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340225,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[806],"tags":[874,1100,1120],"class_list":["post-340754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colorimetry","tag-colour-measurement","tag-cooking-fat","tag-margarine-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hunterlab.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hunterlab.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hunterlab.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hunterlab.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hunterlab.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hunterlab.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hunterlab.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hunterlab.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hunterlab.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hunterlab.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}