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
The detectives discover vegetable proteins
A client is interested in manufacturing vegetable proteins as ingredients in plant-based meat alternatives. She needs help in setting up the quality control of these vegetable proteins and she turns to the food detectives for advice.
Five tips on how to optimize fat extraction by Miss Mapple
There are two things on the wish list of any food analyst performing fat extraction. They would like a fat extraction process that is highly reproducible and more cost-efficient. See five tips our food detectives offer to help optimize fat extraction and get these two items checked off the wish list easily.
Real-time monitoring of pork fat melting
The detectives are challenged to find further use of food items and food waste in other industries. Inspired by the many recycling ideas of food circular economy, they take on a case of quality monitoring during the pork fat melting process.
How to use hydroxyproline to determine meat quality
A restaurant owner is accused of food fraud, precisely of claiming cheap meat is of high quality. The detectives jump into action and in no time help to prove her meat is highly certified quality.
