Shallot Holmes and the food detectives
Welcome to the "Shallot Holmes and the Food Detectives" blog
Shallot Holmes developed a name for himself already in his pre-teen years thanks to his sharp mind and investigative nature. He was the shallot that could most frequently discover who had just cut up another member of the onion community by carefully performing tears trace analysis on sleeping chefs. Shallot Holmes was inspired to officially pursue a career as a food detective when overhearing his parents discussing a notorious case of food fraud, mainly the addition of horse meat to lasagna that was supposed to contain ground beef only. Shallot Holmes is well educated in all methods used in food analytics.
Shallot Holmes post overview
How the sugar cane producer saved another €468,000 during bioethanol production
The food detectives were happy to help a sugar cane producer already save €180,000 during the four steps of raw cane sugar production. They are even more happy when he returns for advice on how to optimize his bioethanol production processes.
Ready, set, go! Kjeldahl vs NIR in the race for most efficient food analytics
The team clearly needs a break from their case load and Shallot Holmes comes up with a great workshop just in time to save the mood in the office. See two food detectives hold a great scientific debate over the merits of Kjeldahl vs NIR in the food testing lab.
Wasting no time in reducing plastic waste from food containers
The food detectives discuss the problem of accumulating plastic waste, frequently resulting from food containers and plastic bottles. They want to contribute to alleviating the problem, so they take on a case based at a recycling plant.
The detectives determine vicinal diketones (VDK) in beer
More than a year since the opening of their agency, the food detectives come face to face with an arch nemesis, Micobiarties, microbial contamination! A client complains his beer is frequentgly affected by microbial contamination during the production process.
