How to determine the carbohydrate content and calculate energy of meat without using bomb calorimeter. Is there any formula for it?
René Renato Balandrán-Quintana
Well, meat carbohydrate content is very low. Even so you can perform the proximate analysis and calculate the carbohydrates by difference as with most of foods. Usually, the energy is calculated on the base of the kcal apported by each component., i.e., 9 kcal per g of lipids and 4 kcal per g of proteins and carbohydrates. So, if you have the percentages of each component in the meat you can easily calculate the energy. I hope this serves to you. Regards
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Naresh Kumar Mehta
You can use Anthrone Method, which is very much prevalent in food science. This method is very easy. Contact me for any further help needed.
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